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PLAINTIFF BOOK-PRINTER REPUDIATED ITS BOOK-PRINTING CONTRACT WITH DEFENDANT WHEN IT SOLD ITS PRINTING OPERATION TO A THIRD PARTY (FIRST DEPT). ​

The First Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Oing, determined plaintiff (EPAC) had repudiated its book-printing contract with defendant (Wiley) when it sold its printing operation to non-party LS-1. Therefore Wiley was entitled to summary judgment on EPAC’s breach of contract action:

“A repudiation can be either ‘a statement by the obligor to the obligee indicating that the obligor will commit a breach that would of itself give the obligee a claim for damages for total breach’ or ‘a voluntary affirmative act which renders the obligor unable or apparently unable to perform without such a breach'” … . Put another way, “a party repudiates a contract ‘where that party, before the time of performance arrives, puts it out of his power to keep his contract'” … . “Besides giving the nonrepudiating party an immediate right to sue for damages for total breach, a repudiation discharges the nonrepudiating party’s obligations to render performance in the future” … . Thus, if there were a repudiation, the rest of the case falls away, and Wiley would be entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint. EPAC Tech., Inc. v John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2024 NY Slip Op 00933, First Dept 2-20-24

Practice Point: Here the requirements for “repudiation” of a contract are described in some detail.

 

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