STAPLETON STUDIOS, LLC v. CITY OF NEW YORK


22 A.D.3d 314 (2005)

802 N.Y.S.2d 54

STAPLETON STUDIOS, LLC, et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Appellants-Respondents.

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

October 13, 2005.


The absence of a written development agreement or long-term lease is fatal to most of plaintiffs' causes of action, which are barred by the statute of frauds. The complaint, when liberally construed, however, makes out a claim for tortious interference with prospective business relations based on its allegations of slander and business defamation (cf. Vigoda v. DCA Prods. Plus, 293 A.D.2d 265, 266 [2002]). The slander and business...

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