Kliger-Weiss Infosystems, Inc. v. Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., 2015–06404

• Decision Date: 07 March 2018
• Docket Number: Index No. 606457/14,2015–06404
• Citation: 73 N.Y.S.3d 205,159 A.D.3d 683
• Parties: KLIGER–WEISS INFOSYSTEMS, INC., respondent, v. RUSKIN MOSCOU FALTISCHEK, P.C., appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

159 A.D.3d 683
73 N.Y.S.3d 205

KLIGER–WEISS INFOSYSTEMS, INC., respondent,
v.
RUSKIN MOSCOU FALTISCHEK, P.C., appellant.

2015–06404
Index No. 606457/14

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

Argued—November 17, 2017
March 7, 2018

L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Marian C. Rice and Meredith D. Belkin of counsel), for appellant.

Tannenbaum, Helpern, Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York, N.Y. (Vincent J. Syracuse, George F. duPont, and Carl F. Regelmann of counsel), for respondent.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P., CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, COLLEEN D. DUFFY, FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Timothy S. Driscoll, J.), entered June 29, 2015. The order denied the defendant's motion pursuant

73 N.Y.S.3d 207

to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the complaint or, in the alternative, to dismiss the second and third causes of action as duplicative of the first cause of action.

ORDERED that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof denying those branches of the defendant's motion which were to dismiss the second and third causes of action as duplicative of the first cause of action, and substituting therefor a provision granting those branches of the motion; as so modified, the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In 2001, the plaintiff, Kliger–Weiss Infosystems, Inc. (hereinafter KWI), entered into an agreement (hereinafter the 2001 agreement) to license and market certain software from STS Systems, LTD, a predecessor in interest to Epicor Retail Solutions Corporation (hereinafter Epicor). In relevant part, the 2001 agreement contained a provision providing for automatic one-year renewals of the 2001 agreement (hereinafter the evergreen provision). In 2004, Epicor's predecessor in interest commenced an action against KWI and others in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (hereinafter the federal action) seeking, inter alia, to terminate the 2001 agreement due to alleged breaches by...