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10. Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 10 - Commitments and Contingencies

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”) filed 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 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 sought damages in the amount of $6,090 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, 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 matter was mediated on November 14, 2017, during which the parties agreed to a settlement. On December 19, 2017, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with TSG, pursuant to which TSG agreed to dismiss with prejudice its lawsuit filed against the Company. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the Company agreed to pay an amount of $900 to TSG on or before December 31, 2017. The Company also agreed to pay to TSG commissions, at the rates in effect since February 7, 2013, on all orders for the Company’s products received and accepted by the Company from the states of Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018, other than for (i) sales of the Company’s products to federal government agencies and offices, (ii) sales of the Company’s products to other end-users, excepting state and local government agencies and offices, and (iii) sales of parts or service, including warranty service. In addition, if at any time on or before December 31, 2018, the Company completes a change-in-control transaction, then the Company will pay to TSG an amount equal to $2,000, less the amount of commissions paid by the Company with respect to 2018, as described above. The settlement agreement settled all claims raised by TSG in its lawsuit against the Company. In December 2017, the Company recorded an estimated commission amount of approximately $536. For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company paid $682 in commissions to TSG. In June 2018, the Company estimated and recorded an additional commission amount of approximately $290 for the remainder of 2018. No additional commission amounts were estimated for the three months ended September 30, 2018.

 

Purchase Commitments

 

As of September 30, 2018, the Company had purchase orders to suppliers for inventory of approximately $6,924.

 

Significant Customers

 

Sales to United States government agencies represented approximately $7,110 (53.5%) and $15,879 (41.0%) of the Company’s total sales for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, compared with approximately $5,210 (43.7%) and $11,145 (36.5%), respectively, for the same periods last year. Accounts receivable from agencies of the United States government were $3,440 as of September 30, 2018, compared with approximately $2,977 at the same date last year.