Opinion ID: 2824513
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Number of Breaches

Text: The district court explicitly found that International entered into thirtythree separate time charters with third parties by the Agreement’s terms, each of which constituted a breach of the Agreement. International does not contest that it failed to notify Delta in advance of almost all of the charters, nor that it failed to pay the 10% fees due to Delta for every breach found by the district court, whether it wholly failed to pay the fees in advance of Delta’s audit or simply failed to pay the fees on time or in the correct amount. Instead, International asserts that the district court over-counted the number of breaches by counting each invoice International issued as a separate time charter and breach. Contrary to the district court’s findings, International contends that it sometimes issued multiple invoices for singular charters. Therefore, it argues that each invoice should not count as an “incident or occurrence,” or separate breach, under the contract. The district court did not clearly err in parsing how many times International chartered out the vessels in breach of the Agreement, sometimes equating singular invoices with singular charters and sometimes aggregating multiple invoices into just one charter and one breach. Although International contests several of the charters counted by the district court as separate breaches, it provided no direct evidence that those specific invoices represented 8 Case: 14-31192 Document: 00513148606 Page: 9 Date Filed: 08/10/2015 No. 14-31192 only one charter. 4 Evidence from the bench trial supports the district court’s determinations. Accordingly, we find no clear error in the district court’s conclusion that Delta breached the Agreement thirty-three times. 5 See Ergon, 706 F.3d at 424.