James Games inc. owns the trademark to the famous board game Michigan Rummy. Mike Sampson wrote a book on strategy for winning at MR and contacted James Games to request permission to use the Michigan Rummy trademark. In response, James Games requested a copy of Sampson's manuscript, which he provided. After prolonged negotiations between parties regarding the possibility of James Games' publication of the manuscript broke off, James Games brought out its own Michigan Rummy strategy book. No express contract was ever entered into between Sampson and James Games. Sampson sued James Games and its subsidiary, Michigan Rummy Game Players, Inc., for damages for breach of an implied contract. Was there an implied contract between the parties? APA citations.