Stolthaven Perth Amboy, Inc. v. JLM Marketing, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered June 13, 2007, which granted the petition to confirm an arbitration award, denied the cross motion to vacate the award, and awarded petitioner the principal sum of $825,000, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

All three arbitrators affirmed the award in the same form, although the signatures of the majority were not notarized. That necessity was eliminated by the Legislature in 1981 (see Weinstein-Korn-Miller, NY Civ Prac ¶ 7507.02). Even were we to find a defect in the affirmations of the majority, we would not vacate the…