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Decision of Note: No Interference Seen in Failure of Deal Talks

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
August 28, 2007

The Appellate Court of Conn-ecticut affirmed that the rap group Fort Knox failed to establish that a member's brother tortiously interfered with the group's business expectancy of entering into a recording contract with rap mogul Master P. Robinson v. Robinson, No. 27467. Fort Knox member Delone Robinson claimed that negotiations ended after his brother Curtis told Master P counsel Darrell Miller of Los Angeles that the agreement Master P had offered the artists 'was a 'Mickey Mouse' contract because it contained no advance money.'

The appellate court noted: 'As Delone Robinson conceded, even if the allegations of the defendant's statements to Miller were true, there was no direct evidence that the statements caused [Master P's] No Limit Records to terminate its business negotiations with Fort Knox. A logical and reasonable explanation for the termination of the relationship, as Miller testified, was that Master P was going through a change in distribution companies at the time of the negotiations, which caused the termination. An equally plausible explanation for the breakdown in negotiations was that the proposed changes made by Delone Robinson's Atlanta lawyer caused No Limit Records simply to walk away from the deal.'

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