Lantis Eyewear Corp. v. Luxottica Group S.P.A.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered January 14, 2002, which denied defendant Ray-Ban Optics’ motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the complaint and upon Ray-Ban’s second and third counterclaims, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was the exclusive distributor for a line of sunglasses manufactured by Bausch & Lomb, the predecessor in interest of defendant Ray-Ban Sim Optics. Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for Ray-Ban’s alleged breach of the parties’ three-year distributor agreement entered into in 1998, which plaintiff maintains was…