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BASILE TZOVOLOS ET AL. v. SCOTT WISEMAN ET AL. JASON ROBERT'S, INC. v. ALPERT REALTY, LLC (SC 18569)
Rogers, C. J., and Norcott, Palmer, Vertefeuille and Alvord, Js. Argued October 27, 2010--officially released February 22, 2011

Daniel Shepro, for the appellants-appellees (defendant Jason Robert's, Inc., et al. in the first action and plaintiff in the second action). Richard W. Callahan, for the appellees-cross appellants (plaintiffs in the first action).

Opinion

PER CURIAM. This appeal arises from two cases involving a complex commercial dispute over the ownership of and security interests in certain restaurant equipment. In the first action, which was brought in the judicial district of New Haven, the plaintiffs, Basile Tzovolos and Olympia Tzovolos, alleged that the defendants Scott Wiseman and Seawind, LLC (Seawind),1 had breached a purchase and sale agreement for the equipment. The plaintiffs alleged, among other things, that: Wiseman and Seawind had failed to make payments for the equipment; Wiseman had breached a promissory note related to the sale of the equipment; Wiseman and Seawind had been unjustly enriched; the defendants Robert D. Hartmann, Sr. (Hartmann, Sr.), Robert D. Hartmann, Jr. (Hartmann, Jr.), Jason R. Hartmann (Jason Hartmann), Jason Robert's Concrete, LLC (Jason Robert's Concrete), and Wiseman had converted the equipment; Hartmann, Sr., Hartmann, Jr., Jason Hartmann, Jason Robert's Concrete and Jason Robert's, Inc. (Jason Robert's),2 had engaged in a fraudulent transfer of the equipment and had violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA), General Statutes

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