Opinion ID: 2458558
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: There is a genuine issue of material fact as to Bellows's contractual claims.

Text: Shaffer has presented three contractual claims in the course of this litigation: breach of contract, anticipatory breach, and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. If there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the conveyance to Hanson was a fraudulent conveyance, then a fortiori there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the conveyance was a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. If upon further factual development it is determined that the conveyance involved some form of consideration, then there is also a question of whether the conveyance breached the explicit terms of the Option Agreement. The superior court did not address the anticipatory breach theory in its summary judgment order. Shaffer did not raise anticipatory breach in his complaint before the superior court, though he did argue it in his opposition to defendants' motion for summary judgment, and he raised it in this appeal. We have on occasion chosen to treat claims similarly litigated in the trial court as preserved on appeal, [18] and we do so again here. On remand, we direct the superior court to consider Shaffer's anticipatory breach theory as part of its reconsideration of Shaffer's contractual claims.