Boston Globe Media Partners is dealing with a lawsuit over a sports activities betting take care of a Danish firm, which claims the Globe owes it greater than $750,000 after the multimedia group apparently broke the contract and went with DraftKings as an alternative.
The Globe’s mother or father firm fired again on Monday, calling the lawsuit “meritless” and added that they plan to file counterclaims in opposition to the Danish agency, Better Collective — which publishes on-line content material about sports activities betting and playing.
In the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court on Friday, Better Collective claimed that Globe Media had reached out to the corporate headquartered in Copenhagen to develop sports activities betting content material for the web site Boston.com forward of the launch of legalized sports activities playing in Massachusetts.
The two sides struck a deal in August, but it surely has gone sideways since.
“To induce BC to do business with it and pay it substantial fees, Globe Media held itself out as a willing, reliable, good faith and committed business partner,” the lawsuit reads. “As it turned out, Globe Media was the exact opposite.”
Boston Globe Media Partners in an announcement on Monday mentioned, “Better Collective failed to meet its obligations under the agreement, causing Boston Globe Media Partners significant harm.”
“BGMP intends to file counterclaims and prevail on this meritless suit,” the multimedia group added.
According to the lawsuit, underneath the phrases of the deal, Better Collective would produce sports activities betting content material in regards to the Massachusetts market and different authorized sports activities wagering states. Better Collective would additionally leverage its business relationships to offer advertisements for sports activities betting operators.
Boston.com was required to develop, keep and host a subsection of its web site to show the betting content material, in line with the go well with.
Globe Media didn’t sustain its finish of the deal after getting paid, Better Collective claims.
“To date, BC paid Globe Media hundreds of thousands of dollars of fees which it did not earn, to which it is not entitled, and by which it has been unjustly enriched,” the lawsuit reads. “Globe Media’s breaches of the Agreement also caused BC to miss highly lucrative market windows and opportunities thereby causing BC additional damages.”
Meanwhile, the Globe was apparently engaged on a take care of DraftKings, in line with the go well with.
“On information and belief, Globe Media refused to negotiate because it wanted to end its relationship with BC so that it could enter into and/or expand its business relationship with DraftKings on more favorable terms to Globe Media,” the lawsuit reads.
Better Collective terminated the deal in mid-March just some days after cellular sports activities betting went dwell within the Bay State.
Better Collective is in search of damages in extra of $750,000, for the damages to be tripled, plus an award for attorneys’ charges and prices.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”
