Play Beverages, LLC v. Playboy Enterprises International, Inc.

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Breach of Contract
Citation
Case Number: 
2018 IL App (1st) 171850
Decision Date: 
Friday, September 14, 2018
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 1st Div,
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
ROCHFORD

Plaintiffs filed suit for damages from alleged breach of a license agreement to which Plaintiff was granted exclusive right to distribute energy drink. Defendant brought several counterclaims. Jury found in favor of Defendant on all claims, and also verdict for Defendant on its counterclaims, and awarded it $6.4 million in damages for trademark infringement and breach of contract. Court's single recitation of Rule 606(b) did not interfere with or hamper its analysis of Plaintiffs' motion to interrupt 2nd day of jury deliberations to question 3 jurors about their vague statement that they were afraid of the men in the gallery; court properly denied motion and gave jury instruction as to their safety concerns. Court properly denied Plaintiffs' motion for new trial, as Plaintiffs failed to show that Defendant put on a "nativist case" that that any jurors had anti-Middle Eastern bias. (REYES and HALL, concurring.)