Merritt Engineering Consultants, P.C. v. 55 Liberty Owners' Corp.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Friedman, J.), entered on or about April 7, 2004, which dismissed the petition to stay arbitration and directed the parties to proceed to arbitration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

As the Court of Appeals recently held in a related action, the instant construction project, involving extensive repair to the roof and facade of respondent’s building, and the subject of the parties’ Project Consultants Agreement, affected interstate commerce, thus invoking the Federal Arbitration Act (see 9 USC § 1 et seq.; and see Matter of Diamond Waterproofing…