Judge Adopts Recommendation Finding Failure To Pay Breached Franchise Agreements

(December 10, 2018, 4:45 PM EST) -- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A federal judge in Puerto Rico on Nov. 20 adopted a magistrate judge’s Oct. 30 report and recommendation to grant in part a franchisor’s motion for partial summary judgment seeking declaratory judgment, holding that the franchisees’ failure to pay costs required by their franchise agreement warranted termination of the agreement and an order requiring them to pay rent payments, fee payments and other product payments (Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp. v. Rafael Fonseca-Marrero, et al., No. 16-2436, D. Puerto Rico, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197986)....