Business Incentives Co., Inc. v. Sony Corp. of Amer.

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• noting that defendant’s time to answer on all counts was automatically extended by its motion to dismiss seven counts
• declining to apply a contractual provision that New York law would govern the dispute between New Jersey distributor and New York company that provided Sony products for distribution by the New Jersey company
• New Jersey’s interest in protecting small businessmen and powerless consumers is materially greater than New York’s interest in protecting interstate contract of its domiciliary
• New Jersey's interest in protecting small businessmen and powerless consumers is materially greater than New York's interest in protecting interstate contract of its domiciliary
• “[F]rustration of the happening of a condition precedent may be a breach of contract in and of itself.”
• choice of law clause in contract between New York manufacturer and New Jersey corporation specifying New York law is ineffective where New Jersey Franchise Practice Act evinced a strong public state policy to protect small businesses from \more powerful commercial giants\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).