Barnes v. Pine Tree Machinery

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered April 4, 1997, which granted defendant-respondent’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The IAS Court correctly held that defendant’s limited involvement in facilitating the sale of the allegedly defective machine that caused plaintiffs injury, a one-time situation in which defendant effectively brokered the sale of the machine from a previous owner to plaintiffs employer, imposed no duty upon defendant to make sure the machine was safe or…