The plaintiff, a payday loan business, brought a motion for an interlocutory injunction to enforce a restrictive covenant in its commercial lease.
The covenant prohibited the landlord from leasing space in the plaza to competing businesses.
The landlord leased an adjacent unit to a competitor offering installment loans.
The court found that the competitor's business was sufficiently similar to violate the restrictive covenant.
Applying the RJR-Macdonald test with a strong prima facie case standard, the court granted the injunction, ordering the landlord to comply with the exclusivity provision and restraining the competitor from operating its business at the plaza.
