Legal Question in Business Law in Florida

Breach of contract damages

I am a plaintiff in breach of contract. My business was almost 2 years old when I met defendant. Contract was formed which stated that if I changed my brand of product to his and started buying from him instead of my own source in China, he would provide valuable telemarketing and other support. I purchased a large volume of product and defendant suddenly breached contract and now demanded I should pay a fee for his telemarketing services.

We have very strong expert testimony as well as my corporate history to mitigate speculation. The defendant is taking a single approach which is there are no damages. He is pointing to the fact that my 2 year old business had not reported a profit. This was a start up and my business plan indicated that the first 2 years would be a loss as I built the business and I expected to break even after 2 years and start to make a profit in year 3 having picked up thousands of customers. I was well on my way to that when I met defendant and certainly if he had executed his part of the contract I would have derived large profits very quickly.

Am I prohibited from a damage award for future lost profits just because I did not show a profit for the first 2 years of my business?

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