IN RE NEW MOTOR VEHICLES CANADIAN EXPORT LITIG.

MDL Docket No. 1532.

632 F.Supp.2d 42 (2009)

In Re NEW MOTOR VEHICLES CANADIAN EXPORT ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Maine.

July 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Frank, Harvey & Frank, Portland, ME, for Plaintiffs.

William J. Kayatta, Jr., Clifford H. Ruprecht, Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, ME, for Defendants.

Robert A. Van Nest, Rachael Meny, Daniel Purcell, Keker & Van Nest, LLP, San Francisco, CA, David B. McConnell, Perkins Thompson, P.A., Portland, ME, for American Honda Motor Company, Inc., Honda Canada Inc.

Daniel Loeb, Thomas McConnell, Elisabeth M. Stein, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, Washington, DC, for Canadian Automobile Dealers Association.

Steven A. Newborn, James C. Egan, Jr., Kirsten A. Lockhart, Carrie M. Anderson, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Washington, DC, for Chrysler LLC, Chrysler Motors LLC, Chrysler Canada, Inc., Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC.

Margaret M. Zwisler, William R. Sherman, Gregory S. Seador, Charles R. Price, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC, for Ford Motor Company, Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd.

Richard C. Godfrey, P.C., David J. Zott, P.C., Daniel E. Laytin, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, for General Motors Corporation, General Motors of Canada, Ltd., Saab Cars USA, Inc., Saturn Corporation, GMAC LLC.

Glenn A. Mitchell, David U. Fierst, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines LLP, Washington, DC, Bruce C. Gerrity, PretiFlaherty, Augusta, ME, for National Automobile Dealers Association.

Peter Sullivan, Joshua Lipton, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY, Harold J. Friedman, Laurence Leavitt, Friedman, Gaythwaite, Wolf & Leavitt, Portland, ME, for Nissan North America, Inc.

Michael R. Lazerwitz, Lee F. Berger, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, Washington, DC, James T. Kilbreth, Verrill Dana LLP, Portland, ME, for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc.


DECISION AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT1

D. BROCK HORNBY, District Judge.

In antitrust law terms, the plaintiff car buyers in this multi-district lawsuit against car manufacturers are known as "indirect purchasers" because they bought their cars from dealers, not directly from the manufacturers that they are suing. I previously granted the manufacturers' motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' federal...

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