Hotels of Key Largo, Inc. v. RHI HOTELS

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[misrepresentations relating to the breaching party’s performance of a contract do not give rise to an independent cause of action in tort”
• Noting that “[a] critical distinction must be made where the alleged fraudulent misrepresentations are inseparably embodied in the parties’ subsequent agreement.”
• stating that “where the alleged fraudulent mis- representation is inseparable from the essence of the parties’ agree- ment, the economic loss rule applies,” even if the representations were precontractual
• barring action alleging fraudulent failure to adequately provide increased reservations and hotel management services under the contract
• barring action alleging fraudulent failure to adequately provide increased reservations and hotel management services under the contract
• finding fraud to be interwoven with the performance of a contract, where the fraud involved a hotel chain’s pre-contracting promise regarding how quickly an independent hotel would benefit from the contracted-for reservation listing service

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).