Engineered Floors, LLC v. Lakeshore Equipment Company

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Engineered Floors, LLC (“Engineered Floors”) filed a complaint against Lakeshore for its alleged failure to pay invoices for carpeting Engineered Floors sold to Lakeshore.

Lakeshore and the Beaulieu Group, LLC (“Beaulieu”) entered into Pricing Agreements dated August 28, 2017, and February 10, 2017, governing Lakeshore’s purchase of carpeting from Beaulieu (“the Pricing Agreements”). The Pricing

Agreements provided that they were “governed by the laws of the State of California . . . without regard to or application of California’s principles or laws regarding conflict of laws” and set forth agreed upon pricing and other terms for the identified products.

Lakeshore thereafter purchased carpeting from Beaulieu through numerous purchase orders issued pursuant to the Pricing Agreements. Like the Pricing Agreements, the purchase orders stated that California law governed the orders.

Beaulieu accepted and fulfilled the purchase orders. The invoices Beaulieu issued to Lakeshore as a result of the purchase orders contained the following notice: “The terms and conditions for the transaction on this invoice are governed by Beaulieu’s Terms and Conditions…