CBS Outdoor Group Inc. v. Beifeld

OPINION OF THE COURT

Order entered March 15, 2007, affirmed, without costs.

This breach of contract action, seeking to hold defendant Margie Beifeld personally liable for advertising services rendered by plaintiff, was properly dismissed. Where, as here, there is a disclosed principal-agent relationship and the contract relates to a matter of the agency, the agent will not be personally bound unless there is clear and explicit evidence of the agent’s intention to be bound (see I. Kaszirer Diamonds v Zohar Creations, 146 AD2d 492, 494 [1989]). “The fact that the agent signs the purported…