LAZARD FRERES & CO. v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND


268 A.D.2d 294 (2000)

702 N.Y.S.2d 19

LAZARD FRERES & CO. et al., Appellants, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided January 13, 2000.


The trial court properly dismissed the causes of action sounding in breach of contract, since the parties never agreed on a residual fee payment, but at most had an unenforceable agreement to agree. Plaintiffs sent defendant numerous versions of a proposed residual fee agreement that were materially different and which were never signed and returned by defendant as plaintiffs requested defendant to do if it accepted (see, Martin Delicatessen v Schumacher,

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