Cable & Computer Technology Inc. v. Lockheed Sanders Inc.

MEMORANDUM *

The defendants appeal portions of the district court’s order affirming contract and tort damages in relation to the B-1B upgrade contract and affirming the punitive damage award. Cable and Computer Technology (“CCT”) appeals portions of the order reducing the jury’s damage award. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

This case comes to us following trial after our decision in Cable & Computer Technology, Inc. v. Lockheed Sanders, Inc., 214 F.3d 1030 (9th Cir.2000). No new issue of law is raised by the appeal. The facts and proceedings are familiar to the parties. We summarize.

A jury has determined that Sanders, a subsidiary of Lockheed, entered into a contract with CCT to team in making a *22 bid to Boeing for the computer upgrade on the B-1B bomber project of the Air Force. That contract was no mere agreement to agree. It was found by the district court to have “no missing terms.” In the course of the contract Sanders supplied information on CCT’s pricing to Owego, another Lockheed subsidiary also bidding on the Boeing project. Less than two weeks before the bid was due, Sanders broke its contract with CCT, leaving it without a partner or time to find…