Case Name: INDIA.COM, INC., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-CrossAppellee, EASYLINK SERVICES CORPORATION, India Holdings, Inc., Counter-Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Sandeep Dalal, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-04-20
Citations: 420 F. App'x 47
Docket Number: Nos. 10-438-cv (L), 10-612-cv (XAP)
Parties: INDIA.COM, INC., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-CrossAppellee, EASYLINK SERVICES CORPORATION, India Holdings, Inc., Counter-Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Sandeep Dalal, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.
Judges: PRESENT: ROBERT D. SACK, ROBERT A. KATZMANN, RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR., Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 420
Pages: 47–48

Head Matter:
INDIA.COM, INC., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-CrossAppellee, EASYLINK SERVICES CORPORATION, India Holdings, Inc., Counter-Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Sandeep Dalal, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.
Nos. 10-438-cv (L), 10-612-cv (XAP).
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
April 20, 2011.
Justin M. Sher (Jeffrey D. Horst, Krevolin & Horst, LLC, Atlanta, GA, on the brief), Sher LLP, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee India.Com, Inc. and Counter-Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees EasyLink Services Corporation, India Holdings, Inc.
Sandeep Dalai, pro se, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-AppelleeCross-Appellant Sandeep Dalai.
PRESENT: ROBERT D. SACK, ROBERT A. KATZMANN, RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR., Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Appellants India.Com, Inc. ("ICI"), EasyLink Services Corporation ("EasyLink"), and India Holdings, Inc. ("IHI") appeal from the district court's December 31, 2009 judgment awarding damages in favor of Sandeep Dalai. Dalai, proceeding pro se, cross-appeals from the same judgment, which also denied his applications for additional damages and attorneys' fees. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the specification of issues on appeal.
An independent review of the record and relevant case law reveals that the district court properly awarded damages. Except as noted below, we affirm for substantially the same reasons stated by the district court in its thorough opinion. See India.com, Inc. v. Dalai, No. 02 Civ. 111(DLC), 2009 WL 5171734 (S.D.N.Y. Dec.30, 2009).
To the extent that the district court may have erred by determining, in the context of Dalai's request for attorneys' fees, that the indemnification clause of the engagement letter was no longer in effect due to the automatic expiration of that agreement, any such error was harmless. Even if the indemnification provision may have still been in effect, the district court correctly determined that the language of the indemnification clause did not extend to any right to attorneys' fees for litigation of disputes between Dalai and either ICI or EasyLink. Furthermore, Dalai's argument for attorneys' fees based upon the "contribution" portion of the indemnification clause fails because it misunderstands that "contribution" is a legal term that, used in the indemnity context as it is here, plainly contemplates only the "right to demand that another who is jointly responsible for a third party's injury supply part of what is required to compensate the third party." Black's Law Dictionary 352-53 (8th ed.2004) (emphasis added).
We have considered all of the parties' arguments and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.