REISNER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 437, Docket No. 81-7332.

671 F.2d 91 (1982)

Frank REISNER, d/b/a Intermeccanica Automobili, and Indra Imports, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and Adam Opel, A.G., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Lesch, New York City (Shea & Gould, Steven E. Levitsky, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Irving Scher, New York City (Weil, Gotshal & Manges, R. Peyton Gibson, Jay N. Fastow, Martin S. Hyman, New York City, of counsel; and Otis M. Smith, William B. Slowey, of General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before MOORE, TIMBERS and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges.


LEONARD P. MOORE, Circuit Judge:

For three years in the early 1970's, Adam Opel, A.G. ("Opel"), the wholly-owned German subsidiary of General Motors Corporation ("GM"), sold components and engines to Frank Reisner, the owner of a small specialty automobile manufacturing company in Italy, Intermeccanica Automobili, for use in manufacturing a high performance sports car called the Indra. Following Opel's termination of the relationship in 1973, Reisner and his American...

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