Aronow v. Sommer

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Walter Schackman, Referee), entered February 1, 2000, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

As in Transportation Group Mgrs. v Held (166 AD2d 222), the alleged joint venture herein was stymied in the achieve*337ment of its specific purpose, i.e., the acquisition and development of a casino, by the “intense animus between the parties” in March of 1994. Although plaintiffs had been warned that the casino owners wanted to close an additional round of bidding by April of 1994, they…