Commercial lease: The French Supreme Court considers that Article L. 442-6 of the French Commercial Code is only applicable to production, distribution or services activities (Au Marahja)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The judgment handed down on 15 February 2018 by the Third Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation (AJ Contrat 2018, p. 143, obs. K. Magnier-Merran) can be placed in the family of "grands arrêts du petit droit" (F. Buy, Les grands arrêts du petit droit, D. 2017, p. 1481). It is one of a growing number of these decisions, which are currently part of the cantonment of the scope of application of article L. 442-6 C. com. (see not. dir. C. Mouly-Guillemaud, Flux et reflux de la rupture d'une relation commerciale, LexisNexis, 2018). In the present case, Au Marahja, a tenant of commercial premises, had sued its landlord before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de