Abstract
The Supreme Court's opinion in Aspen Skiing Co. provides little guidance for the dominant resort company in dealing with smaller competitors. The opinion is driven almost entirely by unique circumstances, particularly the prior level of cooperation between the two competitors, and does not address the major issues of market definition and essential facilities that could have been resolved. The difficulty in predicting where future court decisions will go in this area does not bode well for cooperative ventures among resorts. The wise resort operator should be very careful about entering into such ventures and about withdrawing from them. The wise resort operator should also consider limiting the resort's participation in at least some of the product markets created by the destination skier because of the potential for monopolization claims created by geographic markets that may be inherently small.
Recommended Citation
Strachan, Gordon
(1985)
"Antitrust Issues Facing the Ski Resort Industry.
The Company Town Revisited,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1985:
No.
4, Article 4.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1985/iss4/4