Flatbush Pac. Dev. Corp. v Markowitz
2008 NY Slip Op 03044 [50 AD3d 294]
April 3, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 18, 2008


Flatbush Pacific Development Corp., Appellant,
v
Jay Markowitz et al., Respondents.

[*1] Edward S. Kanbar, New York, for appellant.

Jay S. Markowitz, respondent pro se.

Davidoff Malito & Hutcher, LLP, Garden City (Michael G. Zapson of counsel), for Michael G. Zapson, respondent. Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J.), entered January 10, 2007, which granted defendants' cross motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Even if there were an escrow agreement, plaintiff's allegation that it was the intended beneficiary of such agreement was conclusory (see e.g. Peabody v Northgate Ford, Inc., 16 AD3d 879, 881 [2005]; Sterritt v Heins Equip. Co., 114 AD2d 616 [1985]). The complaint thus failed to state a cause of action against either the alleged escrow agent, who flatly denied ever holding funds in escrow, or the attorney who represented one of the parties at the closing.

We decline to impose sanctions against plaintiff. Concur—Lippman, P.J., Tom, Buckley and Moskowitz, JJ.