Opinion ID: 2521251
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Custom or Trade Usage

Text: In American Nursery, this court recognized that, [t]he party defending [a limitation of liability clause] may prove the clause is conscionable regardless of the surrounding circumstances if the general commercial setting indicates a prior course of dealing or reasonable usage of trade as to the exclusionary clause. 115 Wash.2d at 223, 797 P.2d 477 (citing Mieske v. Bartell Drug Co., 92 Wash.2d 40, 49, 593 P.2d 1308 (1979); Schroeder, 86 Wash.2d at 260-61, 544 P.2d 20; Hartwig, 28 Wash.App. at 546-47, 625 P.2d 171). Unisearch provided numerous examples of invoices limiting liability from other states. [21] Unisearch also presented an expert who testified that liability exclusions were common industry practice. Furthermore, the amicus reveals that it is industry practice to limit liability in the U.C.C. search context. Factors did not contest the validity of this evidence. Consistent with our previous analysis of trade usage, we find this evidence supportive of the enforceability of the liability limiting clause.