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BY-RITE DISTRIBUTING, INC. v. COCA-COLA CO.

Civ. A. No. C-83-0956W.

577 F.Supp. 530 (1983)

BY-RITE DISTRIBUTING, INC. a Utah corporation, Plaintiff, v. The COCA-COLA COMPANY, PepsiCo, Inc., Sunkist Soft Drinks, Inc., Admiral Beverage Corp., Seven-Up USA, Inc., Seven Up Bottling Company of Salt Lake City, a Utah Corporation, N.V. Swire Bottlers, Inc., a Netherlands Antilles corporation, d/b/a Swire Bottlers, Inc., Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Salt Lake, Dr. Pepper Bottling Company of Salt Lake, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Provo, and Richfield Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and Does 1 through 10, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Utah, C.D.

December 12, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Froerer, Ogden, Utah, for plaintiff.

Richard W. Giauque, Jay D. Gurmankin, Wendy A. Winterholler, Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank C. Jones, Joseph R. Gladden, L. Joseph Loveland, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants Coca-Cola.

C. Keith Rooker, Patricia W. Christensen, Salt Lake City, Utah, Richard M. Steuer, New York City, for defendant PepsiCo, Inc.

Gifford W. Price, Salt Lake City, Utah, David R. Aufdenspring, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant Sunkist.

Keith E. Taylor, Raymond J. Etcheverry, Kent O. Roche, Salt Lake City, Utah, Edward W. Rothe, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Seven Up.

Merlin O. Baker, Salt Lake City, Utah, Harry L. Hobson, John Vaught, Denver, Colo., for defendant Admiral Beverage Corp.

David A. Greenwood, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant N.V. Swire Bottlers.

INTRODUCTION

WINDER, District Judge.

This action involves the issues of whether By-Rite Distributing, Inc. ("By-Rite") is entitled to sell, or encourage and facilitate the sale of, defendants' fountain soft drinks in two-liter PET plastic bottles or other containers intended for later consumption through its Carb-A-Drink Self-Service Beverage Stations and whether the defendants are obligated to sell their fountain syrups to By-Rite for this purpose.

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