A heavy-equipment dealer that alleged a competitor had torpedoed its impending exclusivity deal with Hyundai by sending an allegedly defamatory eleventh-hour email to the president of Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas won a new trial on damages in federal court in Pittsburgh.

After a weeklong trial last year, a jury returned a verdict finding that the email had been defamatory, but that the company hadn’t suffered any actual damages because of it.

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