Logan & Logan, Inc. v. Audrey Lane Laufer, LLC

In an action, inter alia, to compel the defendant to consent to the assignment of a lease, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Pitts, J.), dated July 22, 2005, which granted the plaintiffs motion for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion is denied.

When a commercial lease provides that the landlord will not unreasonably withhold consent to its assignment, the landlord may refuse to consent to an assignment based only on “consideration of objective factors, such as the financial responsibility of the…