This decision involved a commercial landlord-tenant action. The defendant tenant and its guarantor moved for summary judgment dismissing the landlord’s complaint and for summary judgment on the guarantor’s counterclaim. The landlord cross-moved for summary judgment on its claim for unpaid rent and additional rent and against the guarantor. It also sought attorney fees and summary judgment dismissing the tenant’s affirmative defenses and the guarantor’s counterclaim.

The tenant is a “non-membership bridge organization,” which provides instruction in the game of bridge and space for “both casual and duplicate bridge games.” The tenant maintained a kitchen to prepare food and beverages for its customers and also marketed “bridge paraphernalia, such as bridge sets, books, playing cards, and other items.” However, those “offerings” were “secondary to its primary business of providing bridge instruction and bridge games.”

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