Court: PGA Tour Has Business Justification to Charge for Real-Time Scoring Product

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment in a case where Morris Communications argued unsuccessfully that the PGA Tour violated antitrust laws by requiring it to pay a fee to have access to the Tour’s real-time scoring feed.   “The district court correctly found that a company - even a monopolist company - that expends time and money to create a valuable product does not violate the antitrust laws when it declines to provide that