Case Name: Chista Ghaffari, Appellant, v. Rima Investors Corp. et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-11-23
Citations: 266 A.D.2d 111
Docket Number: 
Parties: Chista Ghaffari, Appellant, v Rima Investors Corp. et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 266
Pages: 111–111

Head Matter:
Chista Ghaffari, Appellant, v Rima Investors Corp. et al., Respondents.
[698 NYS2d 680]

Opinion:
—Order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department (Ostrau, P. J., Mc-Cooe and Freedman, JJ.), entered November 28, 1997, which modified an order of the Civil Court, New York County (Saralee Evans, J.), entered December 19, 1996, to grant defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The action, in which plaintiff alleges that defendants, her former employers in a jewelry business, breached an oral agreement to pay her a 20% commission on sales to customers that she referred to them, should be dismissed since the alleged agreement is subject to the Statute of Frauds (General Obligations Law § 5-701 [a] [10]). The doctrine of part performance does not avail plaintiff. Plaintiffs conduct, which included acceptance of commissions on completed transactions substantially less than 20%, is as referable to the series of individually negotiated ad hoc agreements asserted by defendants as with the fixed agreement asserted by plaintiff (see, Anostario v Vicinanzo, 59 NY2d 662). We have considered and rejected plaintiffs other contentions. Concur — Ellerin, P. J., Rosenberger, Tom, Andrias and Buckley, JJ.