Attorney Christopher Ryan Clarke's Legal Cases

Litigation

Laskaratos v. Bay Ridge Hoyt Lender

Jul 28, 2017

OUTCOME: Plaintiff's claims dismissed on summary judgment. Defendants' counterclaims granted on summary judgment

Plaintiff pledgor brought an action against secured lender seeking to set aside a UCC sale of the Plaintiff's membership interests in single asset entity. Successfully secured dismissal of all of Plai ... ntiff's claims, validating the UCC sale and awarding Defendants judgment as to liability on their counterclaims for the deficiency owed to Defendant lender.

Litigation

Liu v. Radmin

May 29, 2013

OUTCOME: Dismissal of complaint on summary judgment grounds affirmed on appeal.

Plaintiffs, Chi Lo Liu and Huag Su Ying Liu, owned certain real property in Manhattan (hereinafter the premises). In 2006, the plaintiffs entered into a contract to sell the premises to the defendant R ... efsnart Corp. (hereinafter Refsnart), a "nominee corporation" of which the defendant Joel Radmin was a principal. The transaction came about after the plaintiff Chi Lo Liu had received a telephone call from the defendant Michael Langone, who worked for the defendant Extreme Realty, LLC (hereinafter Extreme), a real estate brokerage firm partly owned by Radmin, during which Langone asked if the plaintiffs were interested in selling the premises. At his deposition, Chi Lo Liu denied that he ever asked Langone to be his agent, or that he ever asked an individual working on behalf of Extreme to be his agent. Chi Lo Liu also stated that to his understanding, Extreme and Refsnart were not his agents. After the plaintiffs sold the premises, they commenced this action against, among others, Langone, Extreme, Radmin, and Refsnart. The complaint asserted, among other things, causes of action alleging "faithless service broker fraud," breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud. The defendants moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. While that motion was pending, the plaintiffs moved pursuant to CPLR 3025 (b) for leave to amend the complaint to add causes of action alleging violations of Real Property Law §§ 440-a and 442-a. The Appellate Division held that the Supreme Court properly granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The defendants established, prima facie, that they were not agents of the plaintiffs, and that they owed no fiduciary duty to them.

Litigation

V. Veeraswamy Realty v Yenom Corp.

Mar 16, 2010

OUTCOME: Decision of Supreme Court granting Plaintiff leave to reargue reversed as improvident exercise of discretion. Case dismissed.

In an action to recover a real estate broker's commission, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Weiss, J.), dated March 23, 2009, which granted the plaintiff's motio ... n for leave to reargue its prior motion, inter alia, to vacate the dismissal of the action, which had been denied in an order dated November 13, 2008, and, upon reargument, in effect, vacated the order dated November 13, 2008, and thereupon granted the motion, among other things, to vacate the dismissal of the action. Ordered that the order dated March 23, 2009, is reversed, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, the plaintiff's motion for leave to reargue is denied, and the order dated November 13, 2008, is reinstated.

Litigation

The Lily LLC v. Concepcion

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OUTCOME: Dismissal of all claims by the jury.

Breach of contract case against client who was a general contractor for a building in Brooklyn.

Christopher Ryan Clarke's Legal Cases (4)

Laskaratos v. Bay Ridge Hoyt Lender

Liu v. Radmin

V. Veeraswamy Realty v Yenom Corp.

The Lily LLC v. Concepcion