Opinion ID: 4530356
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Lost Profit Damages Calculation 26

Text: Finally, the Huber Parties challenge the District Court’s calculation of the lost profits awarded to AFS as damages for 26 The Huber Parties challenge the District Court’s factual determination that certain costs should be excluded from its lost profits damages award. We review that factual determination for clear error. VICI Racing, 763 F.3d at 293. 37 the trade secrets misappropriation. The Court’s damages figure was based in part on the terms of a contract that Orbital awarded to INSYSMA instead of AFS. The Huber Parties contend that the Court erred as a factual matter in failing to account for approximately $470,000 in costs contemplated by the contract when determining AFS’s lost profits. That argument too fails. Although the Orbital-INSYSMA contract may have contemplated that INSYSMA would undertake certain work that Huber testified would have cost INSYSMA approximately $470,000, there is ample evidence that Huber himself did not believe the work in question was actually encompassed by and a part of the contract. Moreover, it is undisputed that INSYSMA never performed that work. AFS, not INSYSMA, completed it, and that occurred only after Orbital had to sue INSYSMA because INSYSMA initially refused to deliver the underlying materials for the work. The District Court’s lost profits analysis ultimately rested on the amount INSYSMA actually was paid under the contract for the work it actually performed. The Huber Parties are not entitled to a reduction in damages for expenses they never incurred and apparently were not obligated to incur.