In re the Arbitration between Bill of Fare, Inc. & King

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Tompkins, J.), entered March 2, 1992, which denied petitioner’s application for a stay of arbitration, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The arbitration clause, which provides for arbitration of "any disputes as to monies due under this agreement,” clearly encompasses a claim for commissions earned prior to petitioner’s termination of the agreement. But the clause also encompasses the claim for commissions that respondent says he would have earned had petitioner not wrongfully terminated the contract, and which would necessarily require the arbitrator to decide whether petitioner breached the agreement. Respondent’s right to such prospective damages is a matter of contract interpretation to be left to the arbitrator under a broad arbitration clause (Pearl St. Dev. Corp. v Conduit & Found. Corp., 41 NY2d 167, 171). Concur — Murphy, P. J., Carro, Rosenberger, Ross and Kassal, JJ.