likely than not that Horizon would have won the Westlake contract absent the misconduct of these defendants and that, in reasonable probability, Horizon would suffer $898,000 in lost profits as a result. For the reasons explained below, we hold that the evidence is legally insufficient to establish the fact of lost profits damages regarding the Westlake contract with reasonable certainty. Texas courts require that a plaintiff seeking damages based on lost profits from future business opportunities adduce evidence establishing that prospective customers would have done business with the plaintiff absent the defendant’s misconduct. See, e.g., City of Dall. v. Vills. of Forest Hills, L.P., Phase I, 931 S.W.2d 601, 606-07 (Tex. App.—Dallas 1996, no writ); see also Heine, 835 S.W.2d at 85 (<HOLDING>). Thus, to recover lost profits from a contract
holding that a business owners testimony was insufficient to establish lost profits where he was not able to specify which contracts they lost how many they lost how much profit they would have had from the contracts or who would have awarded them contracts and explaining that the plaintiffs could have supported their lost profits with testimony that they had lost out on specific contracts but failed to do so holding past profits coupled with other facts and circumstances may establish lost profits holding plaintiffs could not obtain compensation for both lost value and lost profit holding that lost profits were covered where the insureds product a motor used in a treadmill was defective and caused lost profits on the sale of the treadmills holding that an unestablished business may recover lost prospective profits