United States Seventh Circuit
Smart Mktg Group Inc. v. Publ'n Int'l Ltd., 09-2646
In a marketing firm's breach of contract suit against an online company, involving an agreement to develop programs that would deliver location-specific, brand specific, internet sales leads to auto dealers, jury's award of $5.6 million in damages in finding in favor of the plaintiff is vacated in part and remanded as, although the district court did no err in denying defendant's Rule 50(b) motion for judgment as a matter of law, the district court abused its discretion in refusing to order a new trial on damages, as the damages award fell so far outside anything the evidence might have supported that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to order a new trial on damages.
Appellate Information
- Argued 04/07/2010
- Decided 10/28/2010
- Published 10/28/2010
Judges
Court
- United States Seventh Circuit