John Winthrop became the first governor of this New England…
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Dаphne hаd wоrked hаrd all оf her life tо build her successful hair salon that sold only the highest quality hair products including such healthy ingredients as rosemary oil, coconut oil, and biotin. Daphne trained her niece Amy in the specifics of purchasing quality hair products for her hair salon. Amy was valuable as she was a natural salesperson and bought affordable products from suppliers for the salon that Daphne’s customers appreciated and kept purchasing. During the last summer that Amy worked in the salon, Daphne noticed a change in Amy. She started questioning Daphne’s authority on numerous occasions and started arriving late and leaving early from work. One day, Daphne overheard Amy in the back room speaking in a lowered voice to someone. She peered around the corner and saw Amy producing some cash to the man who unloaded some boxes off of a truck before he left. When she questioned Amy and asked her who the man was, Amy refused to answer and said “What do you care? Isn’t it just about making your customers happy with the products, anyway?” Since Amy was leaving the next week, Daphne decided to forget about the conversation. Two weeks later, Amy’s replacement (Kim) approached Daphne and told her that she had received an email from Amy who informed her she needed to continue purchasing the hair products from the PMX Beauty supplier for Daphne. However, Kim had done her due diligence and researched the supplier and learned that the prices for their inventory were lower because it was an underground criminal supplier who stole the products from delivery trucks from the manufacturer. Daphne was shocked when she heard this, but she immediately thought about all of her regular customers who would be devastated and go to a different hair salon if the truth came out. Daphne told Kim to do what Amy told her, to contact the PMX Beauty supplier, and not to tell anyone about the situation. Four months later, Priscilla (a representative from the supplier) walked into the salon in order to meet with Daphne, who told her to wait in the back room until all of the customers left the salon. When she sat down, Priscilla tapped her long carefully polished pink fingernails on Daphne’s desk and impatiently told her that in order to continue doing business with PMX Beauty, Daphne had to sign the letter she handed her that required her to pay last month’s missed payment. The letter also required her to produce copies of the hair salon’s last two months’ bank statements because of last month’s missed payment. Daphne agreed and promised to make future payments on time. While scanning the letter, she exclaimed out loud “This is fantastic! We can now purchase a case of 2-ounce PMX Beauty shampoo containing aloe for only $150!” Priscilla leaned towards Daphne and whispered that another requirement was that Daphne would have to stock and vigorously promote only PMX Beauty products. Failure to do that would result in possible disclosure to the public of her involvement with a supplier with underground criminal connections that would ruin her business. Daphne signed the agreement, made the overdue payment, and the new agreement was to go into effect 14 days thereafter. Three days after the meeting, Daphne received a copy of the signed agreement. When she noticed that the case of shampoo was actually $1,500 and the PMX Beauty shampoo did not contain aloe, she immediately sent an email to Priscilla and said her salon would no longer carry PMX Beauty products. Discuss all claims that PMX Beauty and Priscilla have against Daphne. Discuss Daphne’s defenses.