Rustum v. Pinto

The court properly granted plaintiffs’ motion, because, in giving effect to the plain meaning of the unambiguous contract language (see Bailey v Fish & Neave, 8 NY3d 523 , 528 [2007]), it found that plaintiffs were unsuccessful in obtaining a “Loan Commitment Letter,” within the meaning of the parties’ contract of sale. Plaintiffs properly cancelled the contract, since paragraph 18.3.1.3 authorized them to cancel the contract if a loan commitment letter contained unmet conditions not concerning plaintiffs. Here, the commitment letter was conditional upon two requirements that were within the control of the lender (see Zellner v Tarnell, 65 AD3d 1335 [2009]; Kapur v Stiefel, 264 AD2d 602 , 603 [1999]). Concur — Mazzarelli, J.E, Sweeny, Moskowitz, Acosta and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.