United States Eleventh Circuit

Judgment against one of defendants, awarding millions in compensatory damages and interest to plaintiff, is affirmed where the district court properly determined that, under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the meaning the parties ascribe to a contractual term in their course of dealings establishes the meaning of that term in the face of a conflicting customary usage of the term.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2006
• Published 09/12/2006

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J.R. Brooks, Robert E. Ledyard, III, Jeffrey T. Kelly, Lanier, Ford, Shaver & Payne, P.C., Huntsville, AL, David M. Aceto, Paul Berks, H. Woodruff Turner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, for TDY Industries, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• R. Wayne Wolfe, Gary P. Wolfe, Wolfe, Jones, Boswell, Wolfe & Hamner, Huntsville, AL, M. Christian King, Ivan B. Cooper, Nikaa Baugh Jordan, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.