Case Name: ARBITRON, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TRALYN BROADCASTING, Defendant, JMD, Inc. d/b/a WLNF-FM/WROA-AM/WZKX-FM/WGCM-AM-FM, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-07-21
Citations: 328 F. App'x 755
Docket Number: No. 08-3921-cv
Parties: ARBITRON, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TRALYN BROADCASTING, Defendant, JMD, Inc. d/b/a WLNF-FM/WROA-AM/WZKX-FM/WGCM-AM-FM, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM K. SESSIONS III, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 328
Pages: 755–756

Head Matter:
ARBITRON, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TRALYN BROADCASTING, Defendant, JMD, Inc. d/b/a WLNF-FM/WROA-AM/WZKX-FM/WGCM-AM-FM, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 08-3921-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
July 21, 2009.
Lawrence J. Bernard, Jr., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Alfred R. Fabricant (Lawrence Drucker, Peter Lambrianakos, on the brief), Dick-stein Shapiro LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant.
PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM K. SESSIONS III, District Judge.
. Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Defendant-Appellant JMD, Inc. (JMD) appeals the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York's (Sweet, J.) decision granting summary judgment for Plaintiff-Appellee Arbitron, Inc. (Arbitron) and awarding $487, 853, 91, plus interest, in damages. We assume the parties' familiarity with the facts of the case, its procedural history, and the scope of the issues on appeal.
In Arbitron Inc. v. Tralyn Broadcasting, Inc. (Arbitron I), 400 F.3d 130 (2d Cir.2005), this Court held that the "escalation clause" in a 1997 agreement between Arbitron and Defendant Tralyn Broadcasting, Inc., which Arbitron later assigned to JMD, was not unenforceably vague. Arbitron I remanded the case for consideration of whether JMD could show that Arbitron violated the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, which inheres in all New York contracts, or an analogous requirement under the New York Uniform Commercial Code. On remand, however, JMD sought principally to reargue questions this Court decided in Arbitron I and failed to present evidence sufficient to survive summary judgment on any material questions of fact relevant to whether Arbitron performed the contract at issue in bad faith. Accordingly, we affirm the District Court's judgment for the reasons ably stated by that court.