Mohammed H. Mirza D/B/A Samir Financial Services, Inc. v. Fleet Retail Finance, Inc.

FLAUM, Chief Judge.

In 2001, Mohammed Mirza filed suit against Fleet Retail Finance seeking a $750,000 commission for allegedly acting as a loan finder for Fleet’s $150,000,000 loan agreement with Phar-Mor, Inc. The district court granted Fleet summary judgment on the issue of whether Fleet breached its oral contract to pay Mirza and found that Mirza could not show that he was the procuring cause of the transaction between Fleet and Phar-Mor. Mirza now appeals.

I. BackgRound

Plaintiff-Appellant Mohammed Mirza is a loan finder. Loan finders match commercial borrowers seeking financing to willing…