Southeast Consultants, Inc. v. McCrary Engineering Corp.

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• explaining that the imposition of liability for wrongful appropriation of a business opportunity requires, inter alia, a showing that “the appropriated opportunity was in fact a business opportunity rightfully belonging to the corporation”
• finding prospective city planning project in which former officer had prepared preliminary study before the project was financed was a corporate opportunity
• business opportunity existed where company had done preliminary work and was invited to make bid on finite project
• officer has a fiduciary obligation not to usurp corporate business opportunity
• an inchoate opportunity to bid on a public works contract was a business opportunity where it was within scope of former employer’s business and employer had done a preliminary study of the project and had been invited to bid on the project
• an inchoate opportunity to bid on a public works contract was a business opportunity where it was within scope of former employer's business and employer had done a preliminary study of the project and had been invited to bid on the project

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).