Oui Cater, Inc. v Lantern Group, Inc.

2010 NY Slip Op 02418 [71 AD3d 555]

March 23, 2010

Appellate Division, First Department

As corrected through Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Oui Cater, Inc., Appellant, v The Lantern Group, Inc.,Respondent.

—[*1]Vernon & Ginsburg, LLP, New York (Mel B. Ginsburg of counsel), for appellant.

Sperber Denenberg & Kahan, PC, New York (Eric H. Kahan of counsel), forrespondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered June 24, 2009,which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimouslyaffirmed, without costs.

The e-mails between the parties conclusively negate plaintiff's claim that the parties enteredinto a contract (see Langer v Dadabhoy, 44 AD3d 425 [2007], lv denied 10NY3d 712 [2008]; Aksman v Xiongwei Ju, 21 AD3d 260 [2005], lv denied 5NY3d 715 [2005]). Here, the e-mails expressed the parties' intention to enter into a contract at alater date. The e-mails referred to "Notes for Agreement" and a "draft contract" and repeatedlyreferred to the formal contract signing, reflecting the parties' intent not to be bound until a formalagreement was signed (Aksman, 21 AD3d at 261-262). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P.,Saxe, Nardelli, Abdus-Salaam and RomÁn, JJ.