Oliveira-Brooks v. Re/Max International, Inc.

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• indicating the elements of apparent agency are that the principal held the agent out, the third person reasonably concluded that an agency relationship existed, and the third person relied on the agent’s apparent authority to his detriment
• mere protection of a trade name does not create an agency relationship
• “inherent in any franchise is the need to protect the name, goodwill, [and] reputation.”
• mere protection of a trade name does not create an agency relationship
• evidence of naming the defendant as an additional insured could not, “as a matter of law, create a genuine issue of material fact to establish an actual agency relationship without some indicia of the right to control the day-to-day real estate business operations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).