Peters v. Coutsodontis

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Saliann Scarpulla, J.), entered July 18, 2016, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendant Stelios Coutsodon-tis’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff George Peters and his uncle, Stelios Coutsodontis, have been involved in a lengthy dispute over stock ownership of a family shipping business, Sea Trade Maritime Corporation. In February 2005, Coutsodontis and others commenced an action against Peters and others, alleging that Peters had engaged in…