Was it a brand new one?
Full size, offcer, carry?
I have an Ultra CDP II (short barrel), that I bought about 6 years ago when Kimber was messing around with that external extractor bs. I did some work on it, before finally sending it back to Kimber, where they repladced the slide, and barrel, all for free.
Since then, in about 5 years, I have not had a single stovepipe or problem with it. It has been dead reliable, and I have shot it a lot...