The UCC "recognizes the ‘perfect tender’ rule: ‘the policy of requiring exact performance by the seller of his obligations as a condition to his right to require acceptance." ’ Fashionwear (PVT) Ltd. v. Regatta (U.S.A.) LLC. , No. 03 Civ 5597 (JFK), 2006 WL 695256, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2006) (quoting UCC § 2–106 cmt. 2); seeAustrian Airlines Oesterreichische Luftverkehrs AG , 567 F.Supp.2d at 592 ("New York recognizes the ‘perfect tender’ rule."). "[I]f the goods or the tender of delivery fail in any respect to conform to the contract, the buyer may ... reject the whole...." N.Y. U.C.C. Law § 2–601.
This nonconformity afforded Taiwan Glass the right, upon tender of delivery in Taiwan, to reject the goods. See id. § 2-601(a) ("[I]f the goods or the tender of delivery fail in any respect to conform to the contract, the buyer may . . . reject the whole . . . ."); Fashionwear (PVT) Ltd. v. Regatta (U.S.A.) LLC, 03-CV-5597, 2006 WL 695256, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2006). Taiwan Glass did, in fact, reject the shipped goods, and CVD did not seek to cure its improper tender of delivery.
As this district has recognized, the definition of an installment contract includes coverage of "installment deliveries tacitly authorized by the circumstances or by the option of either party." N.Y.U.C.C. § 2-612 cmt. 1; see Fashionwear (PVT) Ltd. v. Regatta (U.S.A.) LLC, No. 03 Civ. 5597 (JFK), 2006 WL 695256, at *3 n. 1 (S.D.N.Y. March 17, 2006). Each delivery of a separate lot need not even be separately paid for. N.Y.U.C.C. § 2-612 N.Y. annot. 1. Additionally, a contract that:
See Tr. (Kotzian) at 94:6-96:12; Tr. (Whelan) at 134:23-136:14, 138:13-139:3.See UCC § 2-601(a) ("[I]f the goods or the tender of delivery fail in any respect to conform to the contract, the buyer may . . . reject the whole"); see Fashionwear (PVT) Ltd. v. Regatta (U.S.A.) LLC, No. 03 Civ. 5597 (JFK), 2006 WL 695256, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2006). As an initial matter, Austrian does not assert that the parties changed the delivery deadline in writing, as the APA would have required.