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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/16/2003

Kuwaiti Danish Computer Co. v. Digital Equipment Corp.

Citations

  • 438 Mass. 459
  • 49 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 729
  • 781 N.E.2d 787
  • 2003 Mass. LEXIS 11

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that ‘‘[r]eliance on any statement or conduct . . . was unreasonable as a matter of law [insofar as] it conflicted with the qualifying language [in a written document]’’
  • finding that plaintiffs could not have reasonably rebed on an oral statement made during contract negotiations when the statement’s falsity would have been discovered if plaintiffs had read the entire contract
  • noting that deference was due to the trial court’s “findings of fact on this issue”
  • noting that determining whether unfair or deceptive trade practice is covered by Chapter 93A is a “fact intensive” inquiry that requires evaluating the context of the entire claim to identify the “center of gravity”
  • explaining that courts should eschew a set of rigid factors and instead evaluate whether the “center of gravity of the circumstances that give rise to the claim” was within Massachusetts
  • cautioning that in applying center-of-gravity test, emphasis should not be placed on any particular factor because “[s]ignificant factors that can be identified for one case may be nonexistent in another.”

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Judges: Spina

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