Sokoloff v. Harriman Estates Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing separate cause of action for specific performance but permitting plaintiff to seek specific performance as a remedy
• finding an offer was sufficiently pleaded at the motion to dismiss stage where a specific design and price was set, and it was subsequently followed up with a written payment schedule for the proposed work
• “[A]n agent must not seek to acquire indirect advantages from third persons for performing duties and obligations owed to [the agent’s] principal.”
• agents, as fiduciaries, “must act in accordance with the highest and truest principles of morality”
• “In general, specific performance will not be ordered where money damages would be adequate to protect the expectation interest of the injured party.”
• “In determining whether money damages would be an adequate remedy, a trial court must consider, among other factors, the difficulty of proving damages with reasonable certainty and of procuring a suitable substitute performance with a damages award.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).