Tattoos By Design, Inc. v. Kowalski

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Diane Y. Devlin, J.), entered April 29, 2015. The order denied the motion of defendants for summary judgment.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is granted, and the amended complaint is dismissed.

Memorandum: Plaintiffs commenced this action asserting in an amended complaint causes of action for defamation and tortious interference with business relations. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants published a press release associating them with a tattoo artist whose…