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This lawsuit involves a dispute over the sale of a professional ballroom dance competition in Atlanta. Dance Hotlanta, Inc., the successor by merger to Hotlanta Dance Challenge, Inc., and Nancy Senner collectively, the “HDC Plaintiffs” sued Roca Properties, LLC, Elizabeth Chester, and Antonio Daza collectively, the “Roca Defendants” for breach of certain promissory notes and personal guarantees associated with the sale of the dance competition, prejudgment and postjudgment interest, and attorney fees. The Roca Defendants answered, alleging that they had been fraudulently induced into signing the notes and guarantees, and asserting counterclaims for breach of contract, fraud in the inducement, indemnification, attorney fees, and punitive damages. The trial court granted summary judgment to the HDC Plaintiffs on all of the claims and counterclaims, concluding that the uncontroverted evidence showed that the notes were in default and that the HDC Plaintiffs had not made any actionable false representations to the Roca Defendants that induced them to enter into the sale. For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that genuine issues of material fact exist in this case, and we vacate the trial court’s summary judgment order and remand with instruction.

Summary judgment is proper only if the pleadings and evidence show “that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.” OCGA § 9-11-56 c. “We apply a de novo standard of review to an appeal from a grant of summary judgment, and we view the evidence, and all reasonable conclusions and inferences drawn from it, in the light most favorable to the nonmovant.” Punctuation and footnote omitted. Bonner v. Southern Restaurant Group, 271 Ga. App. 497 610 SE2d 129 2005.

 
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