It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, whether patented or unpatented, for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities of a competitor or competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale, or contract for sale or such condition, agreement, or understanding may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.
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It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, whether patented or unpatented, for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities of a competitor or competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale, or contract for sale or such condition, agreement, or understanding may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.
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§ 14. Sale, etc., on agreement not to use goods of
competitor
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in
commerce, in the course of such commerce, to
lease or make a sale or contract for sale of
goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies,
or other commodities, whether patented or
unpatented, for use, consumption, or resale
within the United States or any Territory there-
of or the District of Columbia or any insular
possession or other place under the jurisdiction
of the United States, or fix a price charged
therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such
price, on the condition, agreement, or under-
standing that the lessee or purchaser thereof
shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, mer-
chandise, machinery, supplies, or other com-
modities of a competitor or competitors of the
lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease,
sale, or contract for sale or such condition,
agreement, or understanding may be to substan-
tially lessen competition or tend to create a mo-
nopoly in any line of commerce.
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 3, 38 Stat. 731.)
§ 15. Suits by persons injured
(a) Amount of recovery; prejudgment interest
Except as provided in subsection (b), any per-
son who shall be injured in his business or prop-
erty by reason of anything forbidden in the anti-
trust laws may sue therefor in any district court
of the United States in the district in which the
defendant resides or is found or has an agent,
without respect to the amount in controversy,
and shall recover threefold the damages by him
sustained, and the cost of suit, including a rea-
sonable attorney’s fee. The court may award
under this section, pursuant to a motion by such
person promptly made, simple interest on actual
damages for the period beginning on the date