Merchant

Under Section 2-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.), merchant "means 	a person who deals in goods of the kind 	or otherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill 	peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such 	knowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment of an agent or broker 	or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having such 	knowledge or skill."