Silicon Knights, Inc. v. Crystal Dynamics, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because “Plaintiffs [other] causes of action fail to state claims for relief against ... Defendants, there is no underlying basis for the unfair competition claims.”
• finding the pleadings insufficient where the complaint alleged only that the misrepresentations induced distributors not to deal with plaintiffs without providing facts alleging an actual disruption to negotiations or potential contracts
• “[A]llegations that Defendants’ undisclosed statements caused potential customers not 6 to buy [Plaintiff’s] video game software assert[] the type of speculative economic relationship 7 disapproved of in [Westside].”
• “the 10 words constituting a libel or slander must be specifically identified, if not pleaded verbatim” and 11 “the substance of the defamatory statement must be alleged” (cited sources and internal quotation 12 marks omitted)
• “Even if 21 interference with potential customers is a legitimate basis for tortious interference with economic 22 relations, the complaint alleges only conclusory statements and no facts in support of its 23 contention that it lost potential customers.”

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