Kinesoft Development Corp. v. Softbank Holdings Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the creator of a new video game had not shown lost profits with reasonable certainty where it provided no “analysis of a comparable company selling comparable games”
• holding that the creator of a new video game had not shown lost profits with reasonable certainty where it provided no “analysis of a comparable company selling comparable games”
• rejecting damages; “past successes with similar products or similar businesses is not sufficient”
• past successes related to other businesses or products provide insufficient basis to find plaintiff’s claims fall outside scope of Illinois’s new business rule
• new business or not, a plaintiff seeking lost profits must prove them to a reasonable degree of certainty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).