Pitts

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiff-Appellant Jim Pitts, dba Design Solutions, appeals the denial of his claims for breach of contract and two violations of copyright. These claims relate to the allegedly unauthorized use of its architectural designs and portions of its architectural plans by Defendant-Appellee Coronado Custom Homes (Coronado). Design Solutions asserts that it had contracted with Coronado to draft both preliminary designs and final plans for two houses to be built on two adjacent lots, numbered 18 and 19. Design Solutions alleges that Coronado was not entitled to use the preliminary designs that Design Solutions had drafted for Lot 18 in creating final plans for that house without paying it to complete work on the final plans. Design Solutions further asserts that Coronado was not entitled to use descriptive note blocks and depictions of construction details from the final plans for Lot 19 in the final plans for Lot 18, and it asserts additional claims deriving from these actions. We hold that evidence in the record supports the district court’s finding that, under the terms of the contract Design Solutions had drafted, Coronado held a limited license to use both types of…