Beyoncé might just be getting a court order soon, after bailing out on a club gig deal.

John Morrissey, the owner of M2 Ultralounge in Manhattan, New York, reports that he plans on suing Beyoncé for not showing up in a somewhat high-profile event his club was supposed to be hosting. The event was supposed to be the start of the North American leg of the singer’s I Am… world tour.

Morrissey says that he has contracted Beyoncé through an outside promoter and her manager-dad Matthew Knowles to sing at the event, with numbers alongside her sister Solange Knowles.

However, Matthew told Morrissey days before the event that they were cancelling the deal, due in part to Morrissey not having paid the $200,000 closing fee that they agreed upon. Morrissey says that he asked Matthew what he could do, and that he’s willing to pay the $200,000 along with any other stuff he had to take care of to get the event going.

Morrissey says that Matthew never contacted him back on that.

“The concert ads were on [Beyoncé's] website, our website, we had tons of people calling and coming down and we spent a lot of money setting this whole thing up,” Morrissey was reported as saying. “We had contracts in place and we told them whatever the problem was or the reason [they] canceled, we would like to fix the problem, but he stopped replying to our emails.”

The Beyoncé camp, however, was denying that there ever was a contract to begin with.

“Beyoncé never had a contract with the club itself and no one in her camp dealt directly with the venue. The superstar was never scheduled to perform but was to serve as a cohost and introduce singer-songwriter Solange’s performance. Patrons were falsely promised a performance by Beyoncé,” a Columbia Records representative was reported as saying.

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