Settlement reached in boat show lawsuit The...

Settlement reached in boat show lawsuit

The Southern California Marine Assn. has no plans for a boat show

in Newport Beach next year following a confidential settlement of a

lawsuit filed by the Duncan McIntosh Co., a company that organizes

boat shows in Newport.

Dave Geoffroy, SCMA’s executive director, said Thursday that his

group will not put on a show in Newport next year.

In April, the organizations held competing boat shows the same

weekend.

Geoffroy declined further comment. Duncan McIntosh of the Duncan

McIntosh Co. said his company’s Newport Boat Show will be held again

next spring.

McIntosh said he could not elaborate except to say, “We’re glad

that it’s over.”

McIntosh’s annual Newport Boat Show was held at Lido Marina in

2004 and 2005. In earlier years, he exhibited vessels at the Newport

Dunes Waterfront Resort.

Newport Dunes hosted SCMA’s show. In April 2004, McIntosh secured

a federal injunction against Newport Dunes and SCMA preventing them

from calling their event the Newport Beach Boat Show.

The lawsuit, which named SCMA and Newport Dunes as defendants, was

filed in February 2004, according to The Log, a boating newspaper

published by McIntosh’s company.

Valeant sells Ohio plant to Indian company

Costa Mesa-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International announced

Wednesday that the company made a deal to sell a manufacturing plant

in Bryan, Ohio, to Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., an India-based

company. Sales terms were not released.

In a release, Valeant chief executive Timothy Tyson sad his

company plans to reduce its manufacturing capacity to four plants by

the end of 2006.