—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered December 17, 1999, which, insofar as appealed from, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ causes of action for fraud, negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiffs allege that they were recruited and then induced to remain with defendant investment banking firm by false promises of substantial compensation consistent with industry standards for senior investment advisors, including an equity interest in the firm “as soon as it could be determined that there was a ‘fit’ among all parties”; that although plaintiffs performed their work in a superior manner, defendants did not compensate them as promised; that defendants’ promises were made with an intent not to keep them; and that as a result of