Hackel v. Abramowitz

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane Solomon, J.), entered May 20, 1997, which denied petitioner Hackel’s petition and respondent R.F. Lafferty & Co., Inc.’s cross-petition for a permanent stay of arbitration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

We agree with the IAS Court that appellants’ active participation in the arbitration waived their contention that arbitrability as to those claims involving signators to individual Option Agreements was to be decided by the courts, not the arbitrators (see, Matter of Thompson [S.L.T. Ready-Mix], 216 AD2d 656). As to the remaining claimants,…