were parties to an agreement to restrain trade. First, GUA maintains that by obtaining exclusive dealing contracts with customers that GUA had contacted and by entering into a new and more favorable purchase agreement with Southern Marketing, Alagasco collaborated with Southern to foreclose any competition. In addition, GUA claims that Alagasco’s rate reduction to potential GUA customers following Southern’s denial of the taps, was not a manifestation of Alagasco’s desire to compete with companies such as GUA. Instead, Alagasco was “hedging its bets”, since Alagasco did not completely trust Southern. Plaintiffs Response at 5. GUA also asserts that the conspiratorial nature of Southern and Alagasco’s conduct is manifested through “conscious parallelism.” See American Tobacco Co., supra, (<HOLDING>) GUA recognizes that to prevail with this
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