United States Second Circuit

In contract dispute, multi-million-dollar judgment for plaintiffs is reversed in part where the legal arguments relied on by the district court and the inferences it drew were insufficient to hold that plaintiffs substantially performed under the Purchase Agreement, in terms of warranties relating to the quality and nature of the information it had provided defendants, at the summary judgment stage.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/30/2006
• Decided 08/31/2007
• Published 08/31/2007

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CARDAMONE, WALKER, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kathleen M. Sullivan, Redwood Shores, CA (Daniel H. Bromberg, Daniel A. Zaheer, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Redwood Shores, CA;  Peter E. Calamari, Sanford I. Weisburst, William B. Adams, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Counterclaimants-Appellants., Stuart J. Baskin, New York, N.Y. (Jeremy G. Epstein, John Gueli, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees.