Wells Capital Investments, LLC v. Exit 1 Stop Realty

Appellant Wells Capital Investments, LLC, appeals a judgment requiring it to pay a commission on the sale of its property to Appellee Exit 1 Stop Realty, a real estate broker. Appellant argues that no commission is due because Exit 1 Stop voluntarily abandoned the sales brokerage commission agreement that the parties entered in 2009, long before the negotiation and final sale of the property in 2012. We agree and reverse. Because Exit 1 Stop stopped marketing and communicating with the seller about the subject property three years before the negotiations leading to the sale, we conclude that…