Koren Rogers Associates Inc. v. Standard Microsystems Corp.

This appeal requires us to consider whether an employer may be legally obligated to pay a second fee to a placement firm although the parties’ contract specifically covers only one position to be filled, where, after one of the placement firm’s proposed candidates is hired to fill the opening, the employer later hires, for a second position, another of the candidates originally submitted by the placement firm. In this case, defendant employer ultimately hired two of the candidates provided by the placement firm. Yet, the employer disputes the placement firm’s claim for an additional fee,…