Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
It is well settled that "a party will not be compelled to arbitrate and, thereby, to surrender the right to resort to the courts, absent `evidence which affirmatively establishes that the parties expressly agreed to arbitrate their disputes'" (Matter of Waldron [Goddess],
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