SAM Magazine--Deer Valley, Utah, April 2, 2010--Last week a Federal District Court judge awarded Deer Valley Resort injunctive relief against Christy Sports until January 2015. In sum, the court order stops Christy Sports from renting out any skis from its Deer Valley Resort store location.

The case first started when, in 2006, Christy Sports accused Deer Valley Resort of violating anti-trust laws by 1) not allowing the retailer to rent skis out of a property that Deer Valley used to own; and 2) by opening one of its own rental shops nearby.

Deer Valley no longer owns the property, but when the resort sold the land in 1990, it wrote in a provision that disallowed the property from being used for ski rentals without consent for 25 years.

From 1990 to 1995, Christy Sports did have an agreement with Deer Valley that gave the ski area 15 percent of income from rentals. Then, in 2006, when Deer Valley opened a competing rental shop nearby, Christy Sports filed the complaint.

This most recent ruling upheld the 25-year prohibition of rentals being offered in that location, and doesn't allow Christy to file anything further against Deer Valley.

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