Western Geophysical Company of America, Inc. v. Bolt Associates, Inc., Bolt Associates, Inc., Third-Party v. Litton Industries, Inc., Third-Party

How courts have described this case

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• trial conducted to determine whether defendant exercised its best efforts, defined as “active exploitation in good faith”
• “The proper measure of damages for breach of contract is the amount necessary to put the plaintiff in as good a position as he would have been if the defendant had abided by the contract.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “The proper measure of damages for breach of contract is the amount necessary to put the plaintiff in as good a position as he would have been if the defendant had abided by the contract.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “best efforts” does not impose an absolute requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).