Agency agreement: The French Supreme Court decides that the principal does not breach his duty of loyalty by contracting directly with a client located outside the sector and with a clientele different from that entrusted to to his agent (Rêve / Kidiliz)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The French Supreme Court decides that the principal does not have to pay a commission and does not breach his obligation of loyalty by contracting directly with a client located outside the area entrusted to the commercial agent and who distributes the products in the geographical area of the commercial agent to a clientele different from that entrusted to the intermediary*Facts and procedure A commercial agency contract, concluded in 1997, gave the agent (Cie Reve) the exclusive right to distribute clothing produced by the principal (Kidiliz, which took over the rights of Catimini), on the territory of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to multi-brand customers