Travel Committee, Inc. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the rule but holding that it did not apply because the total amount of damages awarded did not exceed the amount of damages prayed in several counts of the operative pleading, added together
• “Notwithstanding its hint that enforcing a paramount equity might suffice as a reason for piercing the corporate veil, the Court of Appeals to date has not elaborated upon the meaning of this phrase or applied it in any case of which we are aware.”
• representations that wholesale travel agent would be Pan Am's \most favored nation\ were mere puffery
• representations that wholesale travel agent would be Pan Am’s “most favored nation” were mere puffery
• general plan to change corporate direction in manner potentially inconsistent with contractual commitment did not suffice to show fraudulent intent not to abide by contract at time of execution
• general plan to change corporate direction in manner potentially inconsistent with contractual commitment did not suffice to show fraudulent intent not to abide by contract at time of execution

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