NICHOLSON v. YAMAHA

No. 362, September Term, 1989.

80 Md. App. 695 (1989)

566 A.2d 135

GEORGE WILLIAM NICHOLSON, JR. v. YAMAHA MOTOR COMPANY, LIMITED, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Pinder (William J. Blondell, Jr., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Steven M. Levine and Walter J. Smith, Jr. (Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Argued before WILNER, ALPERT and CATHELL, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

Appellant, who now undoubtedly wishes that he hadn't, purchased a 1982 Yamaha motorcycle, Model XJ 400J. The motorcycle was manufactured by Yamaha Motor Company Ltd. of Japan, a Japanese corporation (Yamaha Japan). It entered the American stream of commerce through Yamaha Japan's American distributor, Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. (Yamaha America), which, in turn, distributed it to a regional distributor, Maryland Yamaha, Inc. (Yamaha Maryland)....

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