Case Name: Garrick-Aug Associates Store Leasing, Inc., Appellant, v. Hirschfeld Realty Club Corporation et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2004-01-20
Citations: 3 A.D.3d 406
Docket Number: 
Parties: Garrick-Aug Associates Store Leasing, Inc., Appellant, v Hirschfeld Realty Club Corporation et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 406–406

Head Matter:
Garrick-Aug Associates Store Leasing, Inc., Appellant, v Hirschfeld Realty Club Corporation et al., Respondents.
[770 NYS2d 618]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered July 11, 2002, after a nonjury trial, in an action to recover a real estate brokerage commission, directing entry of judgment in favor of defendants and against plaintiff dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
A fair interpretation of the evidence supports the trial court's findings that the transaction that plaintiff attempted to bring about was abandoned; that the transaction subsequently concluded by defendant landlord with the new tenant was fundamentally different; that plaintiff did not play a significant role in the subsequent transaction and was not a procuring cause thereof; and that plaintiff therefore is not entitled to a commission even though the landlord and new tenant were introduced as a result of its efforts (see Cushman & Wakefield v 214 E. 49th St. Corp., 218 AD2d 464, 467-468 [1996], lv denied 88 NY2d 816 [1996]). We have considered and rejected plaintiffs other claims, including that the subsequent transaction was part of a fraudulent scheme to deprive it of a commission. Concur—Buckley, P.J., Mazzarelli, Saxe, Sullivan and Rosenberger, JJ.