St Nick's Alliance, LLC v. Cordero, 2024 NY Slip Op 24089 (2024)

Citation: St Nick's Alliance, LLC v. Cordero, 2024 NY Slip Op 24089 (2024)
Parent Document: St Nick's Alliance, LLC v. Cordero, 2024 NY Slip Op 24089 (2024)
Jurisdiction: New York (state)
Effective Date: 2024-03-20
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/9486704/st-nicks-alliance-llc-v-cordero/ ↗

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Petitioner's Motion for Summary JudgmentA court may employ the drastic remedy of summary judgment only where "there is no doubt as to the absence of triable issues." (Andre v Pomeroy, 35 NY2d 361, 364 [1974] [internal citation omitted].) On such a motion, a court's function is to find, rather than to decide, issues of fact. (Southbridge Towers, Inc. v Renda, 21 Misc 3d 1138 [A], 2008 NY Slip Op 52418 [U], *2 [Civ Ct, New York County 2008], citing Epstein v Scally, 99 AD2d 713 [1st Dept 1984].) The facts must be considered "in the light most favorable to the non-moving party." (Ortiz v Varsity Holdings, LLC, 18 NY3d 335, 339 [2011].) Only upon a prima facie showing of entitlement to summary judgment, does the burden shift to the non-moving party to establish material issues of fact requiring a trial. (Vega v Restani Const. Corp., 18 NY3d 499, 503 [2012] [internal citations and quotation marks omitted].) "The moving party's [f]ailure to make [a] prima facie showing [of entitlement to summary judgment] requires a denial of the motion, regardless of the sufficiency of the opposing papers (emphasis in original)." (Id. at 503 [internal citations and quotation marks omitted.]) Motions may be decided on default for failure to submit opposition so long as the court specifically treats the failure to oppose the motion as a default. (Liberty Community Assocs., LP v DeClemente, 139 AD3d 532 [1st Dept 2016]; Matter of 144 Stuyvesant, LLC v Goncalves, 119 AD3d 695 [2d Dept 2014].)

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