boycott

/boykot/ Concerted refusal to do business with particular person or business in order to obtain concessions or to express displeasure with certain acts or practices of person or business. Barry v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 555 F.2d 3, 7.

A conspiracy or confederation to prevent the carrying on of business, or to injure the business of any one by preventing potential customers from doing business with him or employing the representatives of said business, by threats, intimidation, coercion, etc. Such acts are prohibited by the Sherman Antitrust Act.

@ consumer boycott

Practice whereby consumers (i.e. customers) refrain from purchasing a particular product in protest of excessive price, offensive actions of manufacturer or producer, etc., or refrain from trading with particular business for similar reasons.

@ group boycott

Concerted refusal to deal among traders with the intent or foreseeable effect of exclusion from the market of direct competitors of some of the conspirators; or, concerted refusal to deal with the intent or foreseeable effect of coercion of the trade practices of third parties. Such group boycotts are per se illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Jones Knitting Corp. v. Morgan, D.C.Pa., 244 F.Supp. 235, 238.

+ group boycott

A concerted refusal by traders to deal with other traders. Occurs when competitors combine to exclude a would-be competitor by threatening to withhold their business from firms that deal with the potential competitor. KOS v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., Alaska, 676 P.2d 1069, 1076.

Such is a per se violation of Sherman Antitrust Act because it restrains freedom of parties to the boycott independently to decide whether to deal with boycotted party. A single trader's refusal to deal with another does not constitute a group boycott. Arzee Supply Corp. of Conn. v. Ruberoid Co., D.C.Conn., 222 F.Supp. 237, 242

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- secondary boycott