Todd M. Roberts, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Mahmood Karimi and Johanna Karimi, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Mahmood Karimi and Johanna Karimi appeal from a judgment en tered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Spatt, /.), awarding plaintiff Todd Roberts $100,000 on his claim that the Karimis breached a contract to sell him their house. Roberts cross-appeals the district court’s denial of his post-trial motion for specific performance.

The district judge concluded that the writings in evidence were sufficient to withstand the statute of frauds, and the jury found that there had been a meeting of the minds. But the jury was not…