Questão jurídica principal
Whether the plaintiff's loss from prematurely terminated customer contracts constituted positive damage or merely lost profit under unfair competition law.
Decisão extraída
Where the plaintiff had already fully performed its contractual services and the customer debt became unrecoverable, the loss is a debtor loss and therefore positive damage; only saved costs may be deducted.
Fundamentação extraída
A damage calculation based on hypothetical net profit is appropriate only where no contract existed and no concrete performance costs were incurred. For already concluded and performed bilateral contracts, the unrecovered receivable reduces assets directly, and deducting the full hypothetical costs would double-count expenses.