Lee & Associates NYC LLC v. 1998 Alexander Karten Annuity Trust

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Edmead, J.), entered June 4, 2013, in favor of plaintiff Lee & Associates *515NYC LLC for the total sum of $178,108.85, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly found in favor of plaintiff broker on the issue of liability. The language of paragraph 13 of the lease rider obligated defendant landlord to pay the “agreed” brokerage fees to the named brokers, i.e., representatives of the defendant landlord and plaintiff broker (see Helmsley-Spear, Inc. v New York Blood Ctr., 257 AD2d 64, 67 [1st Dept 1999]). Plaintiff established…