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What Happened: A lease required restaurant corporation tenant Crab House Ltd. to pay additional rent if it or any “affiliated company” were to open a competing business within a five-mile radius. A couple of years later, Crab House was acquired by Landry’s Seafood Restaurants. Landry’s opened a seafood restaurant within the five-mile radius, and the landlord sued for $2.5 million in extra rent.
