Yuhas

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

I. The Sale and Subsequent Payment Dispute

Yuhas and her husband owned a mailbox rental, shipping, and office supply company called Personal Mailbox, LLC, doing business as Lomita Post & Parcel (Personal Mailbox).2 Khan was a customer at the store, and asked Yuhas “to let him know first” when they were ready to sell the business. In 2018, Yuhas decided to sell and began negotiating with Khan. Initially, she thought that Khan would buy the business as an individual, listing Khan and his wife as the purchasers on

The record on appeal is incomplete, consisting primarily of (1) most of the pleadings and related motions filed by both parties; (2) the purchase agreement and escrow paperwork; and (3) the reporter’s transcripts from the bench trial. It does not contain the cross-complaint appellants filed against Yuhas, or any of the numerous exhibits submitted at that trial, including the parties’ depositions and multiple e-mail and text messages sent by the parties and various vendors and/or creditors. Where this summary references these documents, it relies on their characterization by the parties and their counsel at trial.

Prior to…