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164517P.pdf 02/16/2018 Qwinstar Corporation v. Curtis Anthony
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-4517
and No: 17-1809
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman, Circuit Judge, and Goldberg,
Judge of the United States Court of International Trade]
Civil case - Contracts. The parties' contract concerning Qwinstar's
purchase of Anthony's company's assets was unambiguous and no external
evidence can be admitted to contradict, explain or supplement the terms
contained therein; the contract provided defendant agreed to sell Qwinstar
all inventory he had at the time the agreement was executed, and the
contract, which included an integration clause, did not include a list of
parts Anthony had previously provided Qwinstar, which Qwinstar contended
was more extensive than what was actually received; there was no evidence,
therefore, that Anthony failed to deliver the inventory he possessed at
the time the agreement was executed, and he did not breach the purchase
agreement; order granting Anthony summary judgment on his counterclaim for
breach of the employment agreement between the parties was inappropriate
because the contract provisions regarding termination were ambiguous and
reasonably susceptible to more than one interpretation; the district
court's order granting Anthony summary judgment on his counterclaim is
reversed, and the matter is remanded for further proceedings.