Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court's finding that the article caused the lost business opportunity was arbitrary
Extracted holding
No. The court could reasonably find that the article was at least a contributing cause of the lost deal, given the evidence of the intended partnership and the witness statements about media influence.
Extracted reasoning
Natural causation is a factual question reviewed only for arbitrariness. The cantonal court's assessment of the correspondence, the conditional offer, the later withdrawal, and the witness testimony remained defensible despite other possible contributing factors.