Friend Dev. Group, LLC v Estate of Rood
2009 NY Slip Op 02559 [60 AD3d 992]
March 31, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 6, 2009


Friend Development Group, LLC, Appellant,
v
Estate of Louise Y. Rood et al., Respondents.

[*1] Vergilis Stenger Roberts & Davis, LLP, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. (Kenneth M. Stenger of counsel), for appellant.

McCabe & Mack, LLP, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Richard R. DuValle of counsel), for respondents.

In an action, inter alia, for specific performance of a contract for the sale of real property, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Dolan, J.), dated April 22, 2008, which granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied its cross motion for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Contrary to the plaintiff's contention, the defendants demonstrated their prima facie entitlement to summary judgment dismissing the complaint (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986]) by establishing that a letter from the plaintiff's attorney dated January 14, 2008, constituted a cancellation of the contract for the sale of the subject property (see Gold v First Stop Tire Shop, Inc., 50 AD3d 738 [2008]; Jericho Group, Ltd. v Midtown Dev., L.P., 32 AD3d 294, 298 [2006]; Degree Sec. Sys., Inc. v F.A.B. Land Corp., 17 AD3d 402, 403 [2005]). In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact. Spolzino, J.P., Dillon, Florio and Angiolillo, JJ., concur.