(a) “Merchant” means a person who deals in goods of the kind or otherwise by occupation holds oneself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom this knowledge or skill may be attributed by the person's employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by occupation holds oneself out as having this knowledge or skill.
(b) “Financing agency” means a bank, finance company, or other person who, in the ordinary course of business, makes advances against goods or documents of title or who, by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer, intervenes in ordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for sale, as by purchasing or paying the seller's draft or making advances against it or by merely taking it for collection whether or not documents of title accompany or are associated with the draft. “Financing agency” includes also a bank or other person who similarly intervenes between persons who are in the position of seller and buyer in respect to the goods (AS 45.02.707).
(c) “Between merchants” means in any transaction with respect to which both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of merchants.
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