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- Title: Industrial Electronics Corp. of Wisconsin v. Ipower Distribution Group
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 31, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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Argued February 23, 2000 A failed attempt by several small Wisconsin companies to develop an integrated marketing and distribution consortium with the help of an Ohio software supplier ended with claims of fraud against the Ohio company. Embedded in a fairly complex business arrangement lies an arbitration clause that the Ohio company, iPower Distribution Group, Inc. (""iPower""), believed entitled it to arbitration rather than litigation. The district court disagreed and refused to stay the action pending arbitration. Before the case could continue, iPower appealed. We affirm the district court's decision, although on different grounds than the district court. I. History The complaint in this case concerns the relationships among four corporate entities bound together in various ways by two related agreements. The deal began with defendant iPower, a company that makes a special kind of software for industrial supply dealers. iPower's software allows groups of dealers to combine together into an integrated, one-stop-shopping network so that other business customers may buy products from many dealers with a single order. To market its software, iPower approaches groups of dealers in a particular region and suggests that they form an association, usually a limited partnership or some similar legal entity. That association then enters into a franchise agreement with iPower that allows the association to purchase, install and use the iPower software. Customers place their orders with and make payments to the franchisee association when they want to buy a particular product from an individual dealer.
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