Hallmark Capital Corp. v. Courtenay

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Kathryn Freed, J.), entered March 2, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted the corporate defendant’s motion to confirm the dismissal of all claims as against the individual defendant by this Court in a prior appeal, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny the motion with respect to the claim for unpaid monthly retainer fees, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

As the corporate defendant was wholly owned by the individual defendant, and the two had been represented in this case by the same counsel for some 15…