Case Name: Community Network Service, Inc., Appellant, v. Verizon New York, Inc., Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2008-02-07
Citations: 48 A.D.3d 249
Docket Number: 
Parties: Community Network Service, Inc., Appellant, v Verizon New York, Inc., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 48
Pages: 249–250

Head Matter:
Community Network Service, Inc., Appellant, v Verizon New York, Inc., Respondent.
[849 NYS2d 777]

Opinion:
Judgment, Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.H.O.), entered September 26, 2007, dismissing plaintiffs action with prejudice for failure to prosecute, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Dismissal of the action for failure to prosecute was proper where, on the scheduled date of trial, plaintiffs counsel refused to select a jury (22 NYCRR 202.27 [b]; and see Campos v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 307 AD2d 785 [2003]). Plaintiffs remedy lies in a motion to vacate in which it must "make a showing of a meritorious action and a reasonable excuse for [its] default" (id. at 785). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Friedman, Catterson and Acosta, JJ.