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DEFENDANT HAD WITHHELD PAYMENT ON THE CONTRACT AS AN OFFSET FOR THE LIQUIDATED DAMAGES PROVISION OF THE CONTRACT; THE AWARD OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES TO THE DEFENDANT THEREFORE CONSTITUTED A DOUBLE RECOVERY (FIRST DEPT). ​

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant should not have been awarded summary judgment on the liquidated damages counterclaim because defendant had withheld payment on the contract as an offset to the liquidated damages:

Supreme Court should have denied summary judgment in defendant’s favor on the liquidated damages counterclaim. To be sure, the liquidated damages provision of the contract, providing for damages of $100 for each day that plaintiff failed to timely respond to a request for repairs or to complete repairs already begun and $100 for failing to timely provide a written estimate, was not an unenforceable penalty … . However, to the extent defendant has withheld payment from plaintiff for work performed to offset liquidated damages, the award of liquidated damages constitutes a double recovery. Summit Rest. Repairs & Sales, Inc. v New York City Dept. of Educ., 2022 NY Slip Op 00526, First Dept 1-27-22

 

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