Opinion
05-17-2016
VR CAPITAL GROUP LTD., Plaintiff–Appellant, v. BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, INC., Defendant–Respondent.
O'Hare Parnagian LLP, New York (Robert A. O'Hare, Jr. of counsel), for appellant. Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, New York (Michael O. Adelman of counsel), for respondent.
O'Hare Parnagian LLP, New York (Robert A. O'Hare, Jr. of counsel), for appellant.
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, New York (Michael O. Adelman of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered January 29, 2016, which granted defendant's motion to compel arbitration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court correctly found that there was a valid agreement to arbitrate and that the issue sought to be submitted to arbitration fell within the scope of the agreement's broad arbitration clause (see Edgewater Growth Capital Partners, L.P. v. Greenstar N. Am. Holdings, Inc., 69 A.D.3d 439, 439, 891 N.Y.S.2d 278 [1st Dept.2010] ).
Defendant's failure to provide plaintiff with the requisite notice that it intended to rely on the agreement's automatic renewal provision rendered that provision unenforceable, but, contrary to plaintiff's contention, it did not invalidate the agreement (see General Obligation Law § 5–903[2]; Ovitz v. Bloomberg L.P., 77 A.D.3d 515, 909 N.Y.S.2d 710 [1st Dept.2010] ), affd. 18 N.Y.3d 753, 944 N.Y.S.2d 725, 967 N.E.2d 1170 [2012] ). MAZZARELLI, J.P., MOSKOWITZ, MANZANET–DANIELS, GESMER, JJ., concur.