Pulsifer v. McInnes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining a fiduciary relationship as one “grounded in a higher level of trust than normally present in the marketplace between those involved in arm’s length business transactions.” (quoting EBC I, Inc. v. Goldman, Sachs & Co., 832 N.E.2d 26, 31 (N.Y. 2005))
• “[T]here is generally no fiduciary obligation in a contractual arm’s length relationship between a debtor and a note- holding creditor.”
• “Since there was no underlying breach of contract, [plaintiff’s] tortious interference claim . . . fails.”
• “[I]f the parties do not create their own relationship of higher trust, courts should not ordinarily transport them to the higher realm of relationship and fashion the stricter duty for them.” (alterations and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).