Substantial evidence supports the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board's ruling that claimant was ineligible to receive benefits because she was not totally unemployed. In 1992, claimant, a jewelry store sales clerk and a licensed real estate broker, filed a certificate of doing business for a real estate venture. After she separated from her employment at the jewelry store and filed for unemployment insurance benefits in 1997, claimant entered into an agreement with a real estate agency whereby the real estate venture would refer customers to the agency and receive 20% of the commission derived from any resulting sale. While she was receiving benefits, claimant had two homes listed with the agency, maintained a checking account for the real estate venture and distributed her business cards at social gatherings. These activities were in furtherance of a plan that was intended to produce income and, therefore, we find that substantial evidence supports the Board's determination that claimant was not totally unemployed ( see, Matter of Fanara [Sweeney], 236 A.D.2d 768; Matter of Bryant [Sweeney], 231 A.D.2d 797).
Crew III, J.P., White, Yesawich Jr., Peters and Spain, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the decision is affirmed, without costs.