Global Discount Travel Services, LLC v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plaintiffs contention that a consumer “is ‘locked into’ Pepsi because she prefers the taste, or NBC because she prefers ‘Friends,’ ‘Seinfeld,’ and ‘E.R.’ ” was unconvincing
• “Plaintiffs’ failure to define its market by reference to the rule of reasonable interchangeability is, standing alone, valid grounds for dismissal.” (citations omitted)
• “[plaintiffs failure to define its market by reference to the rule of interchangeability is, standing alone, valid grounds for dismissal.”
• “As a direct party to the contract which is under dispute, [the absent entity] is a necessary party to this litigation [under Rule 19(a)].”
• “to survive a motion to dismiss, a claim under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act must allege a relevant geographic and product market in which trade was unreasonably restrained or monopolized.”
• “As a direct party to the contract which is under dispute, [the non-party] is a necessary party to this litigation for at least three reasons articulated under Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(a).”

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