Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc.

Eastman Kodak Company v. Image Technical Services, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 10, 1991 Decided June 8, 1992
Full case name	Eastman Kodak Company, Petitioner v. Image Technical Services, Inc., et al.
Citations	504 U.S. 451 (more) 112 S. Ct. 2072; 119 L. Ed. 2d 265; 1992 U.S. LEXIS 3405; 60 U.S.L.W. 4465; 1992-1 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 69,839; 92 Cal. Daily Op. Service 4823; 92 Daily Journal DAR 7688; 6 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 331
Case history
Prior	Image Technical Servs., Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co., No. C-87-1686-WWS, 1988 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17218 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 15, 1988); 903 F.2d 612 (9th Cir. 1990); cert. granted, 501 U.S. 1216 (1991).
Subsequent	On remand, Image Technical Services, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co., 125 F.3d 1195 (9th Cir. 1997); cert. denied, 523 U.S. 1094 (1998).
Holding
Even though an equipment manufacturer lacked significant market power in the primary market for its equipment, it could have sufficient market power (based on purchasers' being "locked in" to its product) in the secondary aftermarket (or submarket) for repair parts to be liable under the antitrust laws for its exclusionary conduct in the aftermarket.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Rehnquist, White, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter
Dissent	Scalia, joined by O'Connor, Thomas
Laws applied
Sherman Antitrust Act

Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Servs., Inc., 504 U.S. 451 (1992), is a 1992 Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that even though an equipment manufacturer lacked significant market power in the primary market for its equipment—copier-duplicators and other imaging equipment—nonetheless, it could have sufficient market power in the secondary aftermarket for repair parts to be liable under the antitrust laws for its exclusionary conduct in the aftermarket.^[1] The reason was that it was possible that, once customers were committed to the particular brand by having purchased a unit, they were "locked in" and no longer had any realistic alternative to turn to for repair parts.