Court Opinion

ID: 9462756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:49:21.448981+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:45.868365
License: Public Domain

GURFEIN, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I do not believe that this is really a tie-in antitrust case. Since it .is on an appeal from the granting of a summary judgment, however, I concur with some reluctance since there may conceivably be some state of facts, although I do not see it clearly, under which this could spell out a claim for relief. As it looks now, this case is no different from the giving of premiums like a set of dishes to persons who patronize a motion picture theatre.
As a matter of fact, the plaintiffs do not claim that the tying service actually gave a benefit to the purchaser of the vacuum cleaner but rather that it was part of a fraudulent scheme. We should be reluctant to permit fraud cases, without proper diversity of citizenship, to become antitrust cases so as to found a nebulous antitrust claim for relief.