Matter of BRG Sports, LLC v. Zimmerman

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Melvin L. Schweitzer, J.), entered June 27, 2014, which denied the petition pursuant to CPLR article 75 to stay an arbitration proceeding, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The 2010 employment agreement, pursuant to which petitioner Easton-Bell Sports, Inc. retained respondent, provides a compensation package, including equity participation, and contains a broad arbitration provision requiring that “[a]ny dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or breach hereof, shall be settled by arbitration.” Following his…