Florida Statute 672.610 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIX
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

Chapter 672
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE: SALES

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672.610 Anticipatory repudiation.—When either party repudiates the contract with respect to a performance not yet due the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the contract to the other, the aggrieved party may:

(1) For a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or

(2) Resort to any remedy for breach (s. 672.703 or s. 672.711), even though the aggrieved party has notified the repudiating party that she or he would await the latter’s performance and has urged retraction; and

(3) In either case suspend her or his own performance or proceed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter on the seller’s right to identify goods to the contract notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods (s. 672.704).

History.—s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 595, ch. 97-102.

Note.—s. 2-610, U.C.C.

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Fabrica Italiana Lavorazione Materie Organiche, S. A. S. v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp., Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Sales, Inc., 684 F.2d 776 (11th Cir. 1982).

Cited 46 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 34 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. (West) 1193, 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 25993

...See Massey Fergusen, Inc. v. Bent Equipment Co., 283 F.2d 12, 14 (5th Cir. 1960); Meinrath v. Singer Co., 87 F.R.D. 422, 429 (S.D.N.Y.1980). We conclude that in the context of this case Kaiser’s defense was legally insufficient. U.C.C. § 2-610, F.S.A. § 672.610, states that after a party repudiates the contract, the aggrieved party may suspend his own performance and resort to any remedy for breach....

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Validsa, Inc. v. PDVSA Servs. Inc., 632 F. Supp. 2d 1219 (S.D. Fla. 2009).

Cited 4 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59162, 2009 WL 2029958

...July 8, 1996) (finding a period of "less than 30 days" reasonable for repudiation of contract for sale of accessories to water pipes). Defendants repudiated the Contracts automatically upon passage of the outer limits of the thirty day statutory time period. See Fla. Stat. § 672.610 cmt....

...Hanig, 610 N.W.2d 518, 524 (Iowa 2000) (a promise of performance conditioned on a requirement not within the terms of the contracts is not adequate assurance). In fact, such proposed modifications are themselves repudiations of the Contracts. See Fla. Stat. § 672.610 cmt....

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