Pinnacle Books, Inc. v. Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a clause requiring parties to use their “best efforts” to reach an agreement was too vague to be enforced because there is no clear set of guidelines against which the parties’ “best efforts” may be measured
• noting that performance required under best efforts clause may be implied from circumstances of case
• holding \best efforts\ clause in agreement to agree so vague as to be unenforceable
• “Essential to the enforcement of a ‘best efforts’ clause is a clear set of guidelines against which the parties’ ‘best efforts’ may be measured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).