Questão jurídica principal
Whether the claim for the first and second construction stages was sufficiently substantiated under federal law
Decisão extraída
For a lump-sum or fixed-price contract, it was sufficient to plead which services were performed and to what extent; naming which employee performed them was not required.
Fundamentação extraída
The parties had agreed on a fixed price based on quantities and unit prices, not on labor by specific persons or time spent. The commercial court therefore demanded too much when it required allegations as to who performed what work and when.