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10. Commitments and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 10 - Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

 

From time to time the Company may be involved in various claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of its business. On March 28, 2017, The Sales Group, Inc. (“TSG”) purported to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the Company. TSG was a sales representative of the Company that the Company terminated in March 2017. TSG has asserted claims against the Company for alleged breach of oral contract, violation of the California and Arizona sales representative statutes, and an accounting of alleged unpaid sales commissions. TSG’s complaint seeks damages in the amount of $6,090,000 for alleged unpaid past and future sales commissions. On April 3, 2017, counsel for TSG sent the Company a letter outlining additional alleged grounds for recovery against the Company and offering to settle the litigation in exchange for the continued payment of sales commissions to TSG for a negotiated period of time, a buyout of TSG’s alleged rights for a negotiated sum, or reinstatement of TSG for a period of at least 2.5 years with commission rates equal to those in effect at the time of TSG’s termination. The Company believes that TSG’s claim has no merit, that the Company had the right to terminate TSG without the payment of any further sales commissions and intends to defend against this litigation vigorously. The outcome of this uncertainty cannot presently be determined, accordingly no provision related to this matter has been made in the condensed consolidated financial statements.

  

Purchase Commitments

 

As of March 31, 2017, the Company had purchase orders to suppliers for inventory of approximately $5,249.

 

Significant Customers

 

Sales to the United States government agencies represented approximately $2,917 (39.5%) of the Company’s total sales for the three months ended March 31, 2017, compared with approximately $6,729 (55.8%) for the same quarter last year. Accounts receivable from agencies of the United States government were $1,180 as of March 31, 2017, compared with approximately $4,185 at the same date last year.

 

Sales to a Canadian governmental agency represented approximately $1,321 (17.90%) of the Company’s total sales for the three months ended March 31, 2017, compared with approximately $1,660 (13.75%) for the same quarter last year. Accounts receivable from this Canadian governmental agency were $1,052 as of March 31, 2017, compared with $1,659 at the same date last year.