  The aim of this paper is to confirm in new concrete examples that the
semiclassical entropy of a three-dimensional Lifshitz black hole can be
recovered through an anisotropic generalization of the Cardy formula derived
from the growth of the number of states of a boundary non-relativistic field
theory. The role of the ground state in the bulk is played by the corresponding
Lifshitz soliton obtained by a double Wick rotation. In order to achieve this
task, we consider a scalar field nonminimally coupled to new massive gravity
for which we study different classes of Lifshitz black holes as well as their
respective solitons, including new solutions for a dynamical exponent z=3. The
masses of the black holes and solitons are computed using the quasilocal
formulation of conserved charges recently proposed by Gim, Kim, Kulkarni and Yi
and based on the off-shell extension of the ADT formalism. We confirm the
anisotropic Cardy formula for each of these examples, providing a stronger base
for its general validity. Consistently, the first law of thermodynamics
together with a Smarr formula are also verified.
