Northern Natural Gas Co. v. Conoco, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that the determination of good faith rested on whether the seller acted with “a valid business reason.”
• indicating that the determination of good faith rested on whether the seller acted with “a valid business reason.”
• declining to impose a duty of reasonableness in the parties’ contract because the contract did not provide an underlying obligation or duty
• refusing to imply obligation on gas seller to continue buying gas, because promise to sell gas if it bought any was surrender of legal right and thus sufficient consideration
• refusing to imply obligation on gas seller to continue buying gas, because promise to sell gas if it bought any was surrender of legal right and thus sufficient consideration
• “A party who seeks to avoid performance of an output contract by having no output . . . may not do so in bad faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).