We are interested in the RET donor properties of CNPs comprised of a dielectric nanosphere decorated with small (5 nm diameter) platinum nanospheres. We consider two CNPs with dielectric components having diameters of 400 nm (denoted CNP400) or 600 nm (denoted CNP600). In both cases, the refractive index of the dielectric bead is taken to be n = 2.6, and the CNP is immersed in a surrounding medium with a refractive index of n = 1.33. We focus on the limit of small coverage of the metal nanoparticles, where a typical energy transfer event will likely occur between a discrete metal nanoparticle component of the CNP and one or more acceptor molecules that are adsorbed to its surface. Specifically, each CNP is decorated with only eight platinum nanospheres, which are equally spaced along the great circle of the sphere that contains the propagation plane of the incident light.