Before: Miner and Livingston, C.JJ., and Trager, D.J.*

Decided: Dec. 3, 2009

MARK N. MUTTERPERL, John C. Rawls, and Sarah Silbert, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., New York,New York, for plaintiffs-counter-defendants­appellants.

CHRISTOPHER COLE and John-Mark Turner, Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green, P.A., Manchester,New Hampshire, for defendant-counter-claimant­appellee.