| Lavigny Holdings Ltd. v Coller Intl. Partners V-A, LP |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 00168 [113 AD3d 424] |
| January 9, 2014 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Lavigny Holdings Limited et al.,
Appellants, v Coller International Partners V-A, LP, et al., Respondents. |
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O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York (Abby F. Rudzin of counsel), for
respondents.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (O. Peter Sherwood, J.), entered December 21, 2012, which, upon converting defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint into a summary judgment motion, granted defendants' motion and denied plaintiffs' cross motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
In this action for breach of contract, the motion court correctly found that defendants were entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint. When plaintiffs failed to pay the purchase price for defendants' patent portfolios by a certain date, the unambiguous agreements were terminated and became null and void, without penalty to any party (see e.g. Karan v Sutton E. Assoc.-#88, 256 AD2d 29 [1st Dept 1998], lv denied 93 NY2d 811 [1999]). Accordingly, defendants did not breach the agreements by selling the portfolios to a third party after that date. Nothing in the record shows that defendants acted in bad faith, failed to discharge their obligations under the agreements or impeded plaintiffs' performance during the term of the agreements. In any event, as the motion court properly determined, plaintiffs have no cognizable damages since the agreements provide that plaintiffs could not recover consequential damages arising under the agreements, including loss of profits, which is what plaintiffs seek in this action.
Plaintiffs' claim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is [*2]duplicative of the breach of contract claims (see e.g. Banc of Am. Sec. LLC v Solow Bldg. Co. II, L.L.C., 47 AD3d 239, 243-244 [1st Dept 2007], appeal withdrawn 16 NY3d 796 [2011]). Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Tom, Renwick, Manzanet-Daniels and Feinman, JJ.