(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a contract requiring payment of a contract fee of $5,000 or more is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless:
(1) the party against which enforcement is sought authenticated a record sufficient to indicate that a contract has been formed and which reasonably identifies the copy or subject matter to which the contract refers; or
(2) the agreement is a license for an agreed duration of one year or less or which may be terminated at will by the party against which the contract is asserted.
(b) A record is sufficient under subsection (a) even if it omits or incorrectly states a term, but the contract is not enforceable under that subsection beyond the number of copies or subject matter shown in the record.
(c) A contract that does not satisfy the requirements of subsection (a) is nevertheless enforceable under that subsection if:
(1) a performance was tendered or the information was made available by one party and the tender was accepted or the information accessed by the other; or
(2) the party against which enforcement is sought admits in court, by pleading or by testimony or otherwise under oath, facts sufficient to indicate a contract has been made, but the agreement is not enforceable under this paragraph beyond the number of copies or the subject matter admitted.
(d) Between merchants, if, within a reasonable time, a record in confirmation of the contract and sufficient against the sender is received and the party receiving it has reason to know its contents, the record satisfies subsection (a) against the party receiving it unless notice of objection to its contents is given in a record within a reasonable time after the confirming record is received.
(e) An agreement that the requirements of this section need not be satisfied as to future transactions is effective if evidenced in a record authenticated by the person against which enforcement is sought.
(f) A transaction within the scope of this chapter is not subject to a statute of frauds contained in another law of this Commonwealth.
2000, cc. 101, 996.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce
Chapter 43 - Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
§ 59.1-501.3. Scope; exclusions
§ 59.1-501.4:1. Consumer protection law governs
§ 59.1-501.6. Rule of construction
§ 59.1-501.7. Legal recognition of electronic record and authentication; use of electronic agents
§ 59.1-501.8. Proof and effect of authentication
§ 59.1-501.10. Contractual choice of forum
§ 59.1-501.11. Unconscionable contract or term
§ 59.1-501.12. Manifesting assent
§ 59.1-501.13:1. Opportunity to review
§ 59.1-501.14:1. Pretransaction disclosures in Internet-type transactions
§ 59.1-501.15. Variation by agreement; commercial practice
§ 59.1-501.16. Supplemental principles; good faith; commercial practice
§ 59.1-501.17. Decision for court; legal consequences; reasonable time; reason to know
§ 59.1-502.1. Formal requirements
§ 59.1-502.2. Formation in general
§ 59.1-502.3. Offer and acceptance in general
§ 59.1-502.4. Acceptance with varying terms
§ 59.1-502.5. Conditional offer or acceptance
§ 59.1-502.6. Offer and acceptance; electronic agents
§ 59.1-502.7. Formation; releases of informational rights
§ 59.1-502.8. Adopting terms of records
§ 59.1-502.9. Mass-market license
§ 59.1-502.10. Terms of contract formed by conduct
§ 59.1-502.12. Efficacy and commercial reasonableness of attribution procedure
§ 59.1-502.13. Determining attribution
§ 59.1-502.14. Electronic error; consumer defenses
§ 59.1-502.15. Electronic message; when effective; effect of acknowledgment
§ 59.1-502.16. Idea or information submission
§ 59.1-503.1. Parol or extrinsic evidence
§ 59.1-503.2. Practical construction
§ 59.1-503.3. Modification and rescission
§ 59.1-503.4. Continuing contractual terms
§ 59.1-503.5. Terms to be specified
§ 59.1-503.6. Performance under open terms
§ 59.1-503.7. Interpretation and requirements for grant
§ 59.1-503.9. Agreement for performance to party's satisfaction
§ 59.1-503.10. Licenses to nonprofit libraries, archives or educational institutions
§ 59.1-504.1. Warranty and obligations concerning noninterference and noninfringement
§ 59.1-504.2. Express warranty
§ 59.1-504.3. Implied warranty; merchantability of computer program
§ 59.1-504.4. Implied warranty; informational content
§ 59.1-504.5. Implied warranty; licensee's purpose; system integration
§ 59.1-504.6. Disclaimer or modification of warranty
§ 59.1-504.7. Modification of computer program
§ 59.1-504.8. Cumulation and conflict of warranties
§ 59.1-504.9. Third-party beneficiaries of warranty
§ 59.1-504.10. No implied warranties for free software
§ 59.1-505.1. Ownership of informational rights
§ 59.1-505.3. Transfer of contractual interest
§ 59.1-505.4. Effect of transfer of contractual interest
§ 59.1-505.5. Performance by delegate; subcontract
§ 59.1-505.6. Transfer by licensee
§ 59.1-505.7. Financing if financier does not become licensee
§ 59.1-505.8. Finance licenses
§ 59.1-505.9. Financing arrangements; obligations irrevocable
§ 59.1-505.10. Financing arrangements; remedies or enforcement
§ 59.1-505.11. Financing arrangements; effect on licensor's rights
§ 59.1-506.1. Performance of contract in general
§ 59.1-506.2. Licensor's obligations to enable use
§ 59.1-506.3. Submissions of information to satisfaction of party
§ 59.1-506.4. Immediately completed performance
§ 59.1-506.5. Electronic regulation of performance
§ 59.1-506.6. Copy; delivery; tender of delivery
§ 59.1-506.7. Copy; performance related to delivery; payment
§ 59.1-506.8. Copy; right to inspect; payment before inspection
§ 59.1-506.9. Copy; when acceptance occurs
§ 59.1-506.10. Copy; effect of acceptance; burden of establishing; notice of claims
§ 59.1-506.11. Access contracts
§ 59.1-506.12. Correction and support contracts
§ 59.1-506.13. Contracts involving publishers, dealers, and end users
§ 59.1-506.14. Risk of loss of copy
§ 59.1-506.15. Excuse by failure of presupposed conditions
§ 59.1-506.16. Termination; survival of obligations
§ 59.1-506.17. Notice of termination
§ 59.1-506.18. Termination; enforcement
§ 59.1-507.1. Breach of contract; material breach
§ 59.1-507.2. Waiver of remedy for breach of contract
§ 59.1-507.3. Cure of breach of contract
§ 59.1-507.4. Copy; refusal of defective tender
§ 59.1-507.5. Copy; contract with previous vested grant of rights
§ 59.1-507.6. Copy; duties upon rightful refusal
§ 59.1-507.7. Copy; revocation of acceptance
§ 59.1-507.8. Adequate assurance of performance
§ 59.1-507.9. Anticipatory repudiation
§ 59.1-507.10. Retraction of anticipatory repudiation
§ 59.1-508.1. Remedies in general
§ 59.1-508.3. Contractual modification of remedy
§ 59.1-508.4. Liquidation of damages
§ 59.1-508.5. Limitation of actions
§ 59.1-508.6. Remedies for fraud
§ 59.1-508.7. Measurement of damages in general
§ 59.1-508.8. Licensor's damages
§ 59.1-508.9. Licensee's damages
§ 59.1-508.11. Specific performance
§ 59.1-508.12. Completing performance
§ 59.1-508.14. Discontinuing access
§ 59.1-508.15. Right to possession and to prevent use