Case Name: Schlesinger & Company, LLC, Appellant, v. SLG 220 News Owner LLC, Respondent, et al., Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2016-10-25
Citations: 143 A.D.3d 619
Docket Number: 
Parties: Schlesinger & Company, LLC, Appellant, v SLG 220 News Owner LLC, Respondent, et al., Defendants.
Judges: Concur — Acosta, J.P., Renwick, Saxe, Feinman and Kahn, JJ.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 143
Pages: 619–619

Head Matter:
Schlesinger & Company, LLC, Appellant, v SLG 220 News Owner LLC, Respondent, et al., Defendants.
[39 NYS3d 762]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barry R. Ostrager, J.), entered on or about March 17, 2016, which denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on its cause of action for breach of a brokerage agreement as against defendant SLG 220 News Owner LLC, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff failed to establish prima facie that the successor to the original tenant was, as required by the lease's limitation on the right to exercise the option to renew, a "successor entity to [the original] Tenant," i.e., that it had some measure of common ownership with the original tenant (see Matter of TBA Global, LLC v Fidus Partners, LLC, 132 AD3d 195, 210 [1st Dept 2015]). Plaintiff's alternative interpretation of the limitation clause, that any assignee of the lease was a "successor entity," would impermissibly read the limitation out of the lease (see God's Battalion of Prayer Pentecostal Church, Inc. v Miele Assoc., LLP, 6 NY3d 371, 374 [2006]).
Concur — Acosta, J.P., Renwick, Saxe, Feinman and Kahn, JJ.