Excerpt from: Ski Resort Newsroom
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| February 21, 2009 | | Deer Valley doesn't have to let competitors sell at its private resort | One of the more bitter battles going on in terms of ski resort real estate has been an antitrust suit that Christy Sports lodged against Deer Valley ski resort in Utah.
Deer Valley said that Christy Sports could no longer rent skis out of a store on the ski resort property, and Christy sued. However, reports the Salt Lake Tribune, a Court of Appeals found that antitrust laws had not been violated:
"Having created a resort
destination, antitrust [rules] will not force a resort developer to
share its internal profit-making opportunities with competitors," the
judges wrote. "It is not anticompetitive to refuse to grant access to
competitors."
Obviously, there are plenty of other places in the town of Park City that skiers can rent equipment, and by not having Christy Sports there to compete with the resorts own operations, Deer Valley stands to make more money.
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