This assistance includes advising affiliates with regard to incorporation and annual corporate filing requirements, liquor licensure, bingo licensure, and maintenance of tax-exempt status. Vikings alleged that MDV was improperly soliciting Vikings' subordinates for MDV memberships in that MDV agents were making representations that were false and fraudulent and made for the purpose of inducing Vikings' subordinates to change their memberships. Vikings and MDV ultimately resolved many of the Vikings' claims by entering into a stipulation that MDV, in soliciting new clubs or businesses, would not make any reference to Vikings. The stipulation also contained an admission of fact that MDV was actually informing prospective members that they could change their corporate name and preserve their original corporate charter. Further, as a general proposition, injunctive relief is discretionary and does not issue as a matter of right.
Injunctive relief is a harsh remedy to be used sparingly and only in clear cases.
Id. Vikings portrays MDV's action as tortious interference with a business relationship. Vikings contends, therefore, that the representation made to Vikings' subordinates by MDV that such subordinates may change affiliation from Vikings to MDV by simply filing articles of amendment with the Secretary of State's Office was an affirmative misrepresentation and without justification and, thus, constituted tortious interference with Vikings' business relationships. Macke Laundry Serv. Ltd. P'ship v. Jetz Serv. No liability arises from interfering with a contract or business expectancy, if the defendant had an unqualified legal right to do the action of which the petition complains.