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Court of Chancery Explains Limits of Requirements Contract

XO Communications LLC v. Level 3 Communications Inc., C.A. No. 2131-VCL (November 2, 2007).

While the actual terms of a contract will control its meaning, there are occasions when legal rules will determine the result of a contract dispute. Here, the Court of Chancery noted the rule that in the case of a requirements contract, it is bad faith for the buyer to produce for its own use the materials that it committed to buy from the other party  to the contract. The Court held that rule did not apply when at the time the requirements contract was entered into, the buyer had the means of producing the goods it had agreed to buy from the other party as well. In short, the requirement was not to use the producing party exclusively.

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