INVENTIVE MUSIC LTD. v. COHEN

No. 79-2281.

617 F.2d 29 (1980)

INVENTIVE MUSIC LTD., a Corporation of New York, d/b/a Meadow Music Group, Appellant, v. Jack L. COHEN and First National State Bank of New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey, as co-executors of the Estate of Herman Lubinsky, Sr., Savoy Records Company Inc., a New Jersey Corporation, and its affiliated companies, Worldwide Records, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation, Medallion Songs Inc., a New Jersey Corporation and National Music Publishing Corp., a New Jersey Corporation and Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., a Delaware Corporation.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley W. Kallmann, Gennet & Kallmann, East Orange, N. J., for appellant.

Elliott Abrutyn, Morgan, Melhuish, Monaghan & Spielvogel, Livingston, N. J., for appellee Columbia Pictures.

John C. Heavey, Laurence Reich, George C. Jones, Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Newark, N. J., for appellees Cohen and First National Bank of N. J.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and VAN DUSEN and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


Submitted under Third Circuit Rule 12(6) February 15, 1980.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Chief Judge.

This is a diversity case involving questions of New Jersey law concerning finder's fees and tortious interference with economic interests. The plaintiff, Inventive Music Ltd., appeals from the district court's grant of a directed verdict at the close of the plaintiff's case in favor of the defendants Jack L. Cohen and First National State Bank (the...

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