Established commercial relationship: The Paris Court of Appeal clarifies the criteria for identifying an established commercial relationship (AMC Agencement / Cuisines Design Industries...)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Identification of an established business relationship* Except for excess of power of the first court seized (see Com. 29 March 2017, n°15-17659, Lettre distr. April 2017), the Paris Court of Appeal is the only appeal court. Its judgments therefore deserve special attention. Unfortunately, the uniqueness of the source is not a guarantee of the constancy of the qualification criteria, as current events reveal. The fact that the relationship is of a fixed duration excludes its established character. If this is the contribution of the judgment of 5 July, the facts and their context lead to qualify the scope of the statement. These concern a concession