B&H Assoc. of N.Y. LLC v Ackerman
2013 NY Slip Op 01046 [103 AD3d 517]
February 19, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 27, 2013


B&H Associates of New York LLC, Doing Business as Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Appellant,
v
Andrea Ackerman, Respondent.

[*1] Cole Hansen Chester, LLP, New York (Michael S. Cole of counsel), for appellant.

Margolin & Pierce, LLP, New York (Errol F. Margolin of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey K. Oing, J.), entered July 18, 2012, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The provision of the parties' April 25, 2007 letter agreement requiring plaintiff brokerage firm to pay defendant broker draws based on commissions (plural), which is not limited to any stated period of time, is ambiguous since it is subject to different interpretations (see Feldman v National Westminster Bank, 303 AD2d 271 [1st Dept 2003], lv denied 100 NY2d 505 [2003]). Defendant also established the existence of triable issues of fact, including whether plaintiff was the first to repudiate this provision of the parties' agreement.

We have reviewed plaintiff's remaining claims and find them unavailing. Concur—Tom, J.P., Moskowitz, Richter, Manzanet-Daniels and Clark, JJ.