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221209P.pdf   04/24/2023  Louis DeGidio, Inc.  v.  Industrial Combustion, LLC
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1209
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Franchise law. When a manufacturer sells replacement parts to 
   a distributor to repair products the distributor sold, the manufacturer 
   does not collect an indirect franchise fee within the meaning of the 
   Minnesota Franchise Act if it charges the distributor a price based on the 
   retail price the manufacturer paid a third party vendor for the parts; as 
   a result, the distributorship agreement at issue here was not a franchise; 
   further, the manufacturer did not breach an oral implied-in-fact contract, 
   and was not bound by promissory estoppel, when it terminated plaintiff 
   sales representative without cause.