United States Ninth Circuit

In an antitrust action alleging that defendant realtors representing developers tied the sale of undeveloped lots to services and commissions for developed property, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where there was no market for listing and referral services among potential buyers of newly-constructed houses, and thus no competition in the allegedly tied market to be harmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/09/2009
• Decided 07/27/2009
• Published 07/27/2009

Judges

• RYMER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HARRY PREGERSON, PAMELA ANN RYMER and A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve W. Berman and Craig R. Spiegel, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, WA, Philip H. Gordon and Bruce S. Bistline, Gordon Law Office, Bruce C. Jones, Jones & Swartz PLLC, and Daniel Loras Glynn, Trout JonesGledhill Fuhrman PA, Boise, ID, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eugene A. Ritti, Brad P. Miller, and Jason D. Scott, Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley LLP, Boise, ID, for defendant-appellee Holland Realty, Inc., Michael K. Kelley and Scott S. Shay, Haglund, Kelley, Horngren, Jones & Wilder LLP, Portland, OR, for defendant-appellee Sel-Equity Company., Richard C. Boardman and Christine M. Salmi, Perkins Coie LLP, Boise, ID, for defendant-appellee Park Pointe Realty, Inc., James E. Hartley and Elizabeth A. Phelan, Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, CO, and B. Newal Squyres and A. Dean Bennett, Holland & Hart, Boise, ID, for defendant-appellee Aspen Realty, Inc.