to comply with his contractual obligation constitutes an active — anticipatory — breach of the contract). If a party partially performs an obligation or performs it in an unacceptable manner, the party has breached the contract. See, e.g., Brown v. Brian Riley Bar Transp., LEG, 986 So.2d 901, 904 (La. Ct.App.2008) (failure to perform in a “workmanlike manner” is a breach of contract); H & H Concrete, Inc. v. Civicon, Inc., 533 So.2d 1294, 1297-98 (La.Ct.App. 1988) (finding plaintiff in breach of contract when he unilaterally ended performance before the contract had expired because his insurance costs had increased). Every contract must be performed in good faith under Louisiana law. La. Civ.Code Ann. art. 1759 & 1983. See also Payne v. Hurwitz, 978 So.2d 1000, 1006 (La.Ct.App. 2008) (<HOLDING>); N-Y Assocs., Inc. v. Board of Comm’rs of
holding that parties to contract have an implied obligation to put forth a good faith effort to fulfill the conditions of the contract recognizing an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing by all parties in the performance of a contract for the sale of real estate recognizing the basic principle of contract law that the obligation of good faith is an implied condition in every contract holding where parties had not reached a binding contract the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing did not apply holding that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is limited to performance under a contract