Brew-It Company imports coffee beans and sells them under two-year contracts to Jitter Juice, Inc., and other coffeemakers. The contracts require that during the two-year term a coffeemaker not buy beans from Brew-It's competitors. The contracts do not limit the coffeemakers' purchase of tea or other beverage ingredients from other suppliers, however. In the second year of the contract, Jitter Juice protests that this arrangement violates antitrust law.
A) Is Jitter Juice correct?
B) If not, why not? If so, under which antitrust statute, or statutes, could these contracts be held illegal?