United States Second Circuit

Under New Jersey law, when sophisticated parties enter into a series of individual, internally complete agreements, a court cannot go outside the language of the contracts and treat them as a single, end-to-end transaction even though the buyer of products wanted them incorporated into a unified system.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2000
• Decided 12/03/2001
• Published 12/03/2001

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge., Before:  OAKES, KEARSE, and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Aurora Cassirer,Parker Chapin LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., Alan M. Unger, Sidley & Austin, New York, NY, (Elizabeth M. Sacksteder, of counsel;  Sharon A. Gans, AT & T Corp., of counsel), for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.