WCA Seeks to Vacate New Age Telecom Liens for Dish Work Not Performed

The Wireless Contractors Association (WCA) seeks a summons requiring defendant subcontractor New Age Telecom to show cause within 20 days why its four claims of lien against the plaintiff totaling more than $84,000 in unpaid balances shouldn’t be vacated, said WCA's Feb. 13 complaint (docket 16-2023-CA-000911-XXXX-MA) in the 4th Judicial Circuit Court in Duval County, Florida. WCA signed a Sept. 1 contract for New Age to furnish “certain construction services” on WCA’s projects on an “as-needed basis,” it said. In each of four WCA projects, which appear from attached purchase orders to be for Dish Network installations in and around Jacksonville, New Age “failed to satisfy all contractual conditions precedent in order to be entitled to payment,” it said. New Age files the claims of lien “notwithstanding its material breach of the parties’ agreement and failure to complete its scope of work,” it said. New Age “abandoned” each of the four projects, and WCA was forced to hire another subcontractor to complete New Age’s “scope of work,” it said. The claims of lien are “invalid and unenforceable,” it said. If New Age doesn't respond to the show cause summons, WCA seeks an order vacating and canceling the liens of record and awarding WCA costs and attorney’s fees, plus any relief the court “deems proper,” it said. WCA's website says it specializes in tower services, small-cell distribution, 5G upgrades and site "acquisition and integration." New Age's website says it's a specialist in "structured cabling," among other communications and security services.