contact‘Doron Precision and Metropolis. The court agrees with CEC. As an initial matter, Plaintiffs have not demonstrated how Showtime could have been damaged by any alleged unfair or deceptive conduct in connection with its failure to have been awarded Sim 3. By its own admission, Showtime was winding up operations in September 2010 and would be dissolved by year-end. It was not accepting new business. (Doc. 27-2 at 30.) As such, it could not have accepted a purchase order for Sim 3, , Moreover, Plaintiffs have offered- no evidence to suggest that CEC’s statement offering Showtime a purchase order for Sim 3 was false when it was made; instead, it appears that CEC simply changed its mind about this purchase order when it learned of Showtime’s dissolution. Smith, 604 F.Supp. at 529-31 (<HOLDING>). Further, there is no evidence that CEC
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