Floriani Engineering v. Aegean Stoneworks CA4/3

FACTS

Facilities Engineering is a California licensed general engineering contractor. Among other services, Facilities Engineering sells and installs commercial cranes. Vincent Baroldi is one of Facilities Engineering’s two principals. Aegean produces products fabricated from stone and artificial materials, such as counter tops. Aki Vourakis is Aegean’s chief executive officer and one of its principals, and Kiriakos “Kiri” Alyousef is its general manager. In 2018, Vourakis decided to expand Aegean’s business by moving to a larger facility. Aegean’s new warehouse was approximately 10,000 square feet larger than its prior warehouse. Vourakis determined Aegean would install seven major pieces of equipment (three cutting machines and four edging machines). He prepared a CAD (computer-aided design) drawing of the layout that included approximate crane locations and spans. At the beginning of May 2018, Baroldi from Facilities Engineering met with Vourakis and Alyousef at Aegean to discuss selling cranes to Aegean for the new warehouse. Afterward, Baroldi e-mailed a proposal for the sale and installation of seven cranes, which became exhibit 1 at trial. Exhibit 1 consists of an e-mail…