Julias A. Nasso & Assoc. Concrete Corp. v Trataros Constr., Inc.
2010 NY Slip Op 09004 [79 AD3d 471]
December 7, 2010
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 16, 2011


Julias A. Nasso & Associates Concrete Corp., Respondent,
v
Trataros Construction, Inc., et al., Appellants.

[*1] Michael C. Marcus, Long Beach, for appellants.

McLaughlin & Stern, LLP, New York (Aimee E. Saginaw of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles E. Ramos, J.), entered December 3, 2009, which, in an action alleging breach of contract, denied defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly determined that plaintiff's breach of contract claims were not time-barred. According to the complaint, payment for the work plaintiff performed under the subcontract with defendants was conditioned upon the processing and disposition of payment claims with the owner of the construction project. The breach of contract claims therefore did not accrue until 2006, when the payment claims were finally processed and defendants failed to pay the liquidated amounts, and not, as defendants contend, when plaintiff initially completed the work (see John J. Kassner & Co. v City of New York, 46 NY2d 544, 550 [1979]).

We have considered defendants' remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Tom, J.P., Andrias, Sweeny, DeGrasse and RomÁn, JJ.