Court Rules on Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

The New York Supreme Court ruled that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods applied in a contract case in which the plaintiff claimed that the defendant had delivered a nonconforming product that caused $1.7 million in damages plus interest and costs to the plaintiff.

David Zaslowsky and Grant Hanessian of Baker & McKenzie wrote about the case on Lexology.com.

The court denied the majority of the defendant’s dismissal motion, finding the CISG “automatically” applies “when a transaction involves a sale of goods between parties whose places of business are in different countries and those countries are parties to the CISG.”

The case also involved the statute of limitations and the borrowing statute.

Read the article.