Opinion ID: 2602125
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Heading: test for determining when the product was sold

Text: ¶ 34 Like the definition of product, the Utah Product Liability Act has spawned no judicial or legislative answer to the question of when a product is sold. Based on the above-discussed overlap between tort and contract, however, the UCC definition of sale can also be borrowed to provide a method to answer the timing question posed by Utah product liability law. ¶ 35 Under the UCC, a sale occurs with the passing of title from the seller to the buyer for a price. Utah Code Ann. § 70A-2-106(1) (2001). Section 70A-2-401(2) states that [u]nless otherwise explicitly agreed, title passes to the buyer at the time and place at which the seller completes his performance with reference to the physical delivery of the goods. Id. § 70A-2-401(2) (Supp. 2008). What constituted the performance with respect to physical delivery of the goods is an issue of fact that will depend on what the parties agreed to. ¶ 36 In this case, there is no explicit agreement on when title to the generators would pass to the City. Determining when the sale occurred will require knowing what Wheeler had to perform, what constituted delivery, and whether Wheeler met its performance requirements. Because the answers to these questions are not evident in the record, we remand for action consistent with this opinion.