Exhibit 1 At an IAS Commercial Part 12 ofthe Supreme Court ofthe State ofNew York, hetd in and for the County of Kings, at the Courthouse, located at 360 Adams Street, Borough ofBrooklyn, City and State ofNew York on the l Sth day of May 2023.
Based on the TPG Decision's dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint and the reasons stated therein for such dismissal, plaintiffs' claims for tortious interference with contract and permanent injunctive relief against defendants, Capstone Equities and Joshua Zamir ("Capstone Defendants"), are unsustainable.
According to the complaint, the $20 miltion in damages represents the monies plaintiffs would have saved under the loan purchase agreement with TPG RE Finance 2, Ltd. C'TPG), the lender for plaintiffs' notes on the Whale and the defendant in the TPG Action, had the loan purchase agreement closed.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Capstone Defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiffs' claims for unfair competition is denied at this juncture.
Moreover, an action to recover for unjust enrichment sounds in restitution I To sustain a claim for unfair competition, plaintiffs must show that the defendants misappropriated the plaintiffs' labors, skills, expenditures, or good will and displayed some element of bad faith in doing so (see Parekh v Cain,96 AD3d 812, 816 [2d Dept 2012]).