In re the Arbitration between Carbone/Orrino Agency, Inc. & Carbone

—In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to stay arbitration, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Henry, J.), dated *222May 24, 1993, which, inter alia, denied the appellants’ motion for a stay and granted the respondent’s cross motion to dismiss the proceeding and compel arbitration.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The appellants assert that they never received notice of the demand for arbitration, and that their entire agreement was permeated by fraud, thereby making the arbitration clauses invalid. Their claims are without merit.

Where a party…