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Court File No.:<br />

ONTARIO<br />

SUPERIOR COURT <strong>OF</strong> JUSTICE<br />

BETWEEN:<br />

VICTORIA MOSKOVSKA YA<br />

Plaintiff<br />

(Courl seaf)<br />

-and-<br />

TALON INTERNATIONAL INC.<br />

Defendant<br />

<strong>STATEMENT</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>CLAIM</strong><br />

TO THE DEFENDANT<br />

A LEGAL PROCEEDING HAS BEEN COMMENCED AGAINST YOU by the plaintiff.<br />

The claim made against you is set out in the following pages.<br />

IF YOU WISH TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING, you or an Ontario lawyer acting<br />

for you must prepare a statement of defence in Form 18A prescribed by the Rules of Civil<br />

Procedure, serve it on the plaintiff's lawyer or, where the plaintiff does not have a lawyer,<br />

serve it on the plaintiff, and file it, with proof of service, in this court office, WITHIN<br />

TWENTY DAYS after this statement of claim is served on you, if you are served in Ontario.<br />

If you are served in another province or territory of Canada or in the United States of<br />

America, the period for serving and filing your statement of defence is forty days. If you are<br />

served outside Canada and the United States of America, the period is sixty days.<br />

Instead of serving and filing a statement of defence, you may serve and file a notice<br />

of intent to defend in Form 18B prescribed by the Rules of Civil Procedure. This will entitle<br />

you to ten more days within which to serve and file your statement of defence.<br />

IF YOU FAIL TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING, JUDGMENT MAY BE GIVEN<br />

AGAINST YOU IN YOUR ABSENCE AND WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE TO YOU. IF<br />

YOU WISH TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING BUT ARE UNABLE TO PAY LEGAL FEES,<br />

LEGAL AID MAY BE AVAILABLE TO YOU BY CONTACTING A LOCAL LEGAL AID<br />

<strong>OF</strong>FICE.


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Date: May , 2012<br />

F. Youssef<br />

Registrar<br />

Issued by-.,.---,--,------­<br />

Local registrar<br />

Address of court office:<br />

393 University Avenue, 10 1 h Floor<br />

Toronto, ON M5G 1 E6<br />

TO:<br />

TALON INTERNATIONAL INC.<br />

553 Basaltic Road<br />

Concord, Ontario M4K 4W8


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<strong>CLAIM</strong><br />

1. THE PLAINTIFF <strong>CLAIM</strong>S:<br />

a) A Declaration that the Defendant is in breach of the Agreement of Purchase<br />

and Sale described below (the "APS");<br />

b) A declaration that the APS is at an end and is no longer of any force or<br />

effect;<br />

c) Judgement for the return of the deposit paid by the Plaintiff to the Defendant<br />

in the total amount of $275, 100.00;<br />

d) In the alternative, damages for breach of contract in the amount of<br />

$300,000.00;<br />

e) prejudgment interest and postjudgment interest pursuant to the provisions of<br />

the Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.C.43, as amended;<br />

f) any harmonized sales tax or goods and services tax that may be payable on<br />

any amounts pursuant to Bill C-62, The Excise Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. E-<br />

15, as amended, or any other legislation enacted by the Government of<br />

Canada or the Government of Ontario;<br />

g) her costs of this action on a substantial indemnity basis; and<br />

h) such further and other relief as this Honourable Court may deem just.<br />

The Parties<br />

2. The Plaintiff is an individual residing in the Province of Ontario.<br />

3, The Defendant, Talon International Inc., is a corporation incorporated under the<br />

laws of the Province of Ontario, and was at all material times, the vendor of the<br />

condominium units in a project known as the Trump International Hotel and Tower<br />

located in Toronto (''Trump Tower").


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The Agreement of Purchase and Sale<br />

4. On or about March 4, 2008, the Plaintiff entered into an Agreement of Purchase and<br />

Sale with the Defendant. The APS was for the purchase by the Plaintiff of the<br />

condominium unit known as Suite No. 3806 (Resident Unit No.6, Level No. 5) in the<br />

Trump Tower.<br />

5. The APS contains the following material terms:<br />

(a) The purchase price for the condominium unit is $1 ,834,000.00;<br />

(b)<br />

(c)<br />

(d)<br />

A series of four deposits are payable at intervals commencing with the<br />

execution of the APS;<br />

Pursuant to paragraph 2(a) of the APS, occupancy of the condominium unit<br />

would be on March 21, 2011 or such extended or accelerated date that the<br />

units were substantially complete for occupancy in accordance with<br />

paragraph 14 of the APS;<br />

The Defendant had certain rights to extend the closing date on delivery of the<br />

notices required by paragraph 14 oftheAPS.<br />

6. Pursuant to the APS, the Plaintiff paid deposits to the Defendant in the total amount<br />

of $275,100.00, which represents the first and second deposit amounts under the<br />

APS.<br />

Breach of Contract<br />

7. Pursuant to the APS, the tentative closing date was March 21, 2011 ("Tentative<br />

Closing Date").


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8. The Defendant unilaterally delayed the closing date on three occasions for a total of<br />

378 days.<br />

9. Pursuant to the Condominium Act and the ONHWP Act, the landlord was obligated<br />

to establish a confirmed closing date by notice to the Purchasers given within 30<br />

days after completion of the roof assembly. The Defendant did not provide the<br />

aforesaid notice to the Plaintiff within the required period of lime or at all.<br />

10. By reason of the failure of the Defendant to deliver the notice referred to in the<br />

preceding paragraph, the tentative closing date became the confirmed closing date.<br />

11. The Defendant attempted to postpone the closing date by requesting the Plaintiff to<br />

sign agreements amending the closing date, and the Plaintiff signed several such<br />

amendments. The Plaintiff received no consideration whatsoever for signing the<br />

said amendments.<br />

12. On or about November 16, 2010, the Defendant extended the closing date from<br />

March 11, 2011 to December 15, 2011, being 269 days from the Tentative Closing<br />

Date.<br />

13. On or about September 22, 2011, the Defendant again extended the closing date to<br />

January 31,2012 (being 326 days from the Tentative Closing Date).<br />

On or about January 16, 2012, the Defendant yet again extended the closing date<br />

to April 2, 2012.


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15. The closing date was postponed by the Defendant beyond the maximum time<br />

allowed by the Condominium Act the ONHWP Act and the APS.<br />

16. The Defendant failed to obtain from the City of Toronto consent to occupancy by<br />

April 2, 2012. Without the consent of the City of Toronto, occupancy of the unit is<br />

not permitted in accordance with the legal requirements of the City ofToronto of the<br />

condominium unit. Accordingly, the Defendant failed to deliver to the Plaintiff a unit<br />

that could be occupied by April 2, 2012.<br />

17. As of April 2, 2012, the Defendant was unable to close and was in breach of the<br />

APS.<br />

18. Pursuant to paragraph 14(a) of the APS and the Ontario New Home Warranties<br />

Plan Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. 0.31 ("ONHWP Act"), in effect at the time of the execution<br />

of the APS, the Defendant is required to fix and provide written notice to the Plaintiff<br />

of the Confirmed Closing Date within 30 days after the completion of the structural<br />

roof assembly. The Defendant failed to fix the Confirmed Closing Date and notify<br />

the Plaintiff of the Confirmed Closing Date as required, and is therefore in breach of<br />

the APS and the ONHWP Act.<br />

19. Paragraph 14(d) of the APS provides that,<br />

If the vendor shall be unable to complete this transaction by the<br />

Confirmed Closing Date for any reason whatsoever, the<br />

Vendor may extend the Confirmed Closing Date:<br />

(i)<br />

once, not to exceed one hundred and twenty (120) days,<br />

provided written notice is given to the Purchaser at least


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sixty-five (65) days before the Confirmed Closing Date; or<br />

(ii)<br />

once, not to exceed fifteen (15) days, provided written<br />

notice is given to the Purchaser at least thirty-five (35)<br />

days before the Confirmed Closing Date.<br />

20. By unilaterally extending the closing date three times for a total of more than 120<br />

days and an additional15 days, the Defendant is in breach of paragraph 14(d) of<br />

!heAPS.<br />

21. The Condominium Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 19, stipulates certain covenants that are<br />

to be implied in every agreement of purchase and sale of a proposed unit, including<br />

the APS in question. Sections 78(1) and 79 of the Condominium Act, 1998, S.O.<br />

1998, c. 19, provide:<br />

Implied covenants<br />

78. (1) Every agreement of purchase and sale of a proposed<br />

unit entered into by a declarant before the registration of the<br />

declaration and description that creates the unit shall be<br />

deemed to contain the following covenants by the declarant:<br />

1. If the proposed unit is for residential purposes, a covenant to<br />

take all reasonabl.e steps to sell the other residential units<br />

included in the property without delay, except for the units that<br />

the declarant intends to lease.<br />

2. A covenant to take all reasonable steps to deliver to the<br />

purchaser without delay a deed to the unit that is in<br />

registerable form.<br />

Duty to register declaration and description<br />

79. (1) A declarant who has entered into an agreement of<br />

purchase and sale of a proposed unit shall take all reasonable<br />

steps to complete the buildings required by the agreement<br />

subject to all prescribed requirements and to register, without


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delay, a declaration and description in respect of the property<br />

in which the proposed unit will be included.<br />

22. The Defendant has failed to take all reasonable steps to complete the condominium<br />

project, to register it, and deliver the unit to the Plaintiff without delay. Therefore, the<br />

Defendant is in breach of its implied covenants under the APS.<br />

23. The Plaintiff has not waived any aspect of the Defendant's default under the APS.<br />

24. The Plaintiff pleads that the APS has come to an end as a result of the Defendant's<br />

default, and the Plaintiff is entitled to return of the deposits paid.<br />

25. The Plaintiff proposes that this action be tried at the City of Toronto, in the Province<br />

of Ontario.<br />

Date of issue: May/ , 2012<br />

LANDY MARR KATS LLP<br />

Barristers & Solicitors<br />

2 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 900<br />

Toronto, Ontario M2N 5Y7<br />

Keith M. Landy (16906F)<br />

AnnaS. P. Wong (LSUC #59131K)<br />

Tel.: 416-221-9343<br />

Fax: 416-221-8928<br />

Lawyers for the Pia intiff


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Court File No. (_ V- },}- ~')J......G/S-1<br />

ONTARIO<br />

SUPERIOR COURT <strong>OF</strong> JUSTICE<br />

PROCEEDING COMMENCED AT<br />

TORONTO, ONTARIO<br />

<strong>STATEMENT</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>CLAIM</strong><br />

LANDY MARR KATS LLP<br />

Barristers & Solicitors<br />

900-2 Sheppard Avenue East<br />

Toronto, Ontario<br />

M2N 5Y7<br />

Keith M. Landy (16906F)<br />

Anna S.P. Wong (59131K)<br />

Tel: (416) 221-9343<br />

Fax: (416) 221-8928<br />

Lawyers for Plaintiff

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