Vulcan Tools of Puerto Rico v. Makita Usa, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the principles of Puerto Rico’s parol evidence rule are embedded in its civil code
• stating the principles of Puerto Rico’s parol evidence rule are embedded in its Civil Code
• finding where contractual term providing for “non-exclusive” distributorship was clear and unambiguous, there was no need to consider extrinsic evidence of promise to limit number of distributors
• “When an agreement leaves no doubt as to the intention of the parties, a court should not look beyond the literal terms of the contract.”
• Law 75 did not prevent supplier from establishing additional distributorships in Puerto Rico where nonexclusive distributor was already operating even if existing distributor suffered economic harm as result
• where contractual term providing for “nonexclusive” distributorship was clear and unambiguous, there was no need to consider extrinsic evidence of promise to limit number of distributors even absent contractual integration clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).