Upper Midwest Sales Co. v. Ecolab, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding minimum purchase requirements are not indirect franchise fees because they were “not unreasonable, at prices above wholesale, or in amounts greater than the distributors would have purchased otherwise”
• finding no franchise fee where there was “no' evidence that the [minimum purchase commitments] were not at the ordinary, wholesale price or that the distributors were required to purchase unreasonable amounts of inventory”
• finding no franchise fee where there was “no evidence that the [minimum purchase commitments] were not at the ordinary, wholesale price or that the distributors were required to purchase unreasonable amounts of inventory”
• “If the [MFA] applies, irreparable injury is presumed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).