Under the NY Statute of Frauds, which lease must be in writing?

• A. A nine-month lease of goods.
• B. A fifteen-month lease of goods.
• C. A one-month lease of services.
• D. A two-year lease of real estate.

Answer: (B)

Under NY law, leases of goods under the UCC’s lease provisions (Article 2A) must be in writing if the term is longer than one year. A fifteen-month lease clearly spans more than one year, so it must be in writing to be enforceable. A nine-month lease is within one year, so writing isn’t required. A one-month lease of services isn’t a lease of goods, so the UCC rule doesn’t apply. A two-year lease of real estate falls under real property rules, which have their own writing requirements; however, the option that directly falls under the goods lease SoF is the fifteen-month lease of goods.