Grouse River Outfitters Ltd v. Oracle Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division GROUSE RIVER OUTFITTERS LTD, Case No. 16-cv-02954-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

v. ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS

ORACLE CORPORATION, Re: ECF Nos. 387, 400 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff Grouse River Outfitters was a Canadian outdoor-equipment retailer, and it sued NetSuite, Inc., a provider of commercial software systems, for breach of contract and fraud after the software’s functionalities (capturing sales, tracking inventory, and maintaining customer information, for example) allegedly did not perform as NetSuite said they would.1 The contract had a fees provision providing for fees and costs to the prevailing party.2 Ultimately, Grouse River elected to proceed only on its fraud theory.3 The parties agreed that the fees provision meant that 24 25 1 Second Amended Compl – ECF No. 43. Citations refer to material in the Electronic Case…