2/ Frederic R. Abramson Attorney at Law 160 Broadway Suite 500 New York, New York 10038 (212) 233-0666 Fax: (212) 267-7571 August 15, 2013 Michael Linden 100 Oakdale Rd Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 Re: Defamation FOR NEGOTIATION AND SETTLEMENT PURPOSES ONLY Dear Mr. Linden: Please be advised that our firm has been retained by Manhattan LASIK and Dr. Kevin Nilcsarli, located at 110 E. 55th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022 to investigate and take legal action against you for the series of unwarranted and defamatory attacks against it and made by you and your visit to the website Yelp. Dr. Nilcsarli has established a well founded reputation for the quality of its services and customer satisfaction and your umvarranted actions and baseless accusations have damaged that reputation and adversely affected our client's business. You have personally posted willfully false and misleading comments about our clients. Manhattan LASIK Dr. Niksarli at: 9 The statements made in reference to are utterly false and without merit, and they are defamatory per se in that they depict our client as engaging in fraudulent activity that violates civil and criminal law. Your attempts to spread libelous and defamatory material about our client have raised serious and irreparable injury to it, its reputation and its business. Our client will not stand by and allow this misconduct to continue. We hereby demand you: 1. Immediately remove all defamatory and disparaging remarks regarding our client made by you. -2. Immediately cease and desist in publishing defamatory statements about our client, whether the statements are made by you or third parties, and 3. Compensate our client for its attorney fees and costs. This letter puts you on notice that should you refuse to comply with our demands by August 30, 2013, we will have no choice but to recommend that our client pursue all legal causes of action, including the filing of a lawsuit, to protect its interests. We will pursue both damages and attomeys' fees and costs incurred by our client as a result of your actions. This is a very serious -matter that requires your immediate attention. We therefore strongly recommend that you cnntaet us immediatelygto address and resolve this situation. This letter is your one and only chance to resolve this matter amicably. Please be aware that this letter is copyrighted by our law firm, and you are not authorized to publish this in any manner. Use of this letter in positing, in full or in part, will subject you to further causes of action. Frederic R. Abramson 48: 3/