Laszlo N. Tauber & Associates I, LLC v. American Management Ass'n

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), entered March 26, 2002, which, inter alia, granted the petition brought by Laszlo N. Tauber & Associates I, LLC and 135 West 50 LLC to permanently stay arbitration, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

It is evident that the arbitration clause at issue was a narrow one, leaving the threshold determination of whether the condition precedent of timely notice of disagreement with the landlord’s statement was met by the tenant for judicial, rather than arbitral, resolution (see Silverstein Props. v Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, 65…