Heavy-duty Transmission Manufacturer Illegal Forced Exclusive Dealing

In ZF Meritor LLC and Meritor Transmission Corp. v. Eaton Corp., District of Delaware jury found that Eaton Corp. violated the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, in the heavy-duty truck transmission market in a suit brought by two affiliates of rival ArvinMeritor Inc.  In their suit, Plaintiffs claimed that Eaton used its dominant position in the marketplace to force heavy-duty truck manufacturers to enter into exclusive dealing contracts that foreclosed ArvinMeritor from more than 90 percent of heavy-duty transmission sales, which caused the demise of ArvinMeritor’s joint venture with ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF Meritor LLC), a plaintiff in the case, to sell the heavy-duty transmissions.  Following this jury finding, the only issue left to be decided is the amount of damages, which will be determined in a separate trial in the second phase of the litigation. 

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