Millennium Import, LLC v Reed Smith LLP

Millennium Import, LLC v Reed Smith LLP 2010 NY Slip Op 07800 [78 AD3d 404] November 4, 2010 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Millennium Import, LLC, Respondent,
v
Reed Smith LLP et al., Appellants.

—[*1] Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP, Morristown, New Jersey (Anthony J. Sylvester, of the New Jersey Bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for appellants.

Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, Chicago, Illinois (Robert E. Shapiro, of the Illinois Bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton A. Tingling, J.), entered March 5, 2010, which, in an action alleging legal malpractice, denied defendants' motion to dismiss the first amended complaint on the ground of collateral estoppel, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly denied defendants' motion. The issue that was necessarily determined in the Moet arbitration—that Moet failed to give timely notice to Phillips Beverage Co. under the indemnification provisions of the parties' purchase agreement—had no preclusive effect with respect to the malpractice claim. We therefore need not address defendants' remaining arguments. Concur—Saxe, J.P., Nardelli, McGuire, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.