Vestar Development Ii, Llc, an Arizona Limited Liability v. General Dynamics Corporation, a Corporation

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• denying damages because they were “too speculative to satisfy 15 California's longstanding reasonable certainty requirement” and noting that “California case law [] 16 require[s] that damages not be speculative or, conversely, that they be proved to a reasonable 17 certainty”
• finding lost profits claim too speculative for breach of agreement to negotiate where 22 plaintiff sought “future profits that it hoped to earn from the shopping center it had planned to 23 build on the parcel it was attempting to buy”
• “On these facts, [Plaintiff] could satisfy [the reasonable certainty] standard only with respect to reliance damages: time spent, expenses incurred, opportunities foregone, or perhaps harm to his reputation.”
• “It has long been settled in California that the proof 6 must establish with reasonable certainty and probability that damages will result in the future to 7 the person wronged.”

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