Canada: Reynolds hit with second antitrust suit

Authenticom, a data integration service provider, on Monday filed an antitrust lawsuit against dealership management system giants CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds.

The lawsuit accuses the two of creating a duopoly in the dealership data integration market, locking the vendor out of databases necessary to its business and threatening its survival.

Authenticom’s filing was similar to an amended complaint Tuesday by electronic vehicle registration and titling vendor Motor Vehicle Software, which had previously sued the two companies. Both of the new filings said CDK and Reynolds agreed to no longer compete with each other’s data integration services and to block competitors from accessing dealership data on their respective DMS platforms.

Data integration service providers such as Authenticom make dealerships’ data usable for specific vendor services. “Vendors depend on and cannot provide their services without access to a dealer’s data,” Authenticom’s complaint said.

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