Termination Of Franchise Agreement Warranted For Breach Of Agreement

(October 30, 2017, 12:14 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — Noting that a franchisor may have taken a “No More Mister Nice Guy” approach when it terminated a franchise agreement based on the franchisee’s breach of the agreement’s payment obligations, a Florida federal magistrate judge on Oct. 25 said the termination of the agreement was within the franchisor’s rights per the agreement’s terms (Tim Hortons USA Inc. v. Gurvinder Singh, No. 16-23041, S.D. Fla., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 176719)....