Case Name: Charles Christiano et al., Respondents, v. Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C., et al., Appellants, et al. Defendant; Mc-Clier Corporation, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Theodore Williams Construction Company, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant; Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C., Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bank of America Corp., Second Third-Party Defendant-Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2009-05-19
Citations: 62 A.D.3d 535
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles Christiano et al., Respondents, v Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C., et al., Appellants, et al. Defendant. Mc-Clier Corporation, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v Theodore Williams Construction Company, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C., Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v Bank of America Corp., Second Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 535–535

Head Matter:
Charles Christiano et al., Respondents, v Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C., et al., Appellants, et al. Defendant. Mc-Clier Corporation, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v Theodore Williams Construction Company, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C., Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v Bank of America Corp., Second Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
[878 NYS2d 620]

Opinion:
Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered December 4, 2008, which granted plaintiffs' motion to restore the action to the trial calendar, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion denied and the complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.
Plaintiffs failed to meet the criteria for vacating an automatic dismissal pursuant to CPLR 3404 (see Aguilar v Djonvic, 282 AD2d 366 [2001]). Their affidavit of merit was conclusory, they offered no reasonable explanation for their failure to proceed with discovery for nearly two years, they failed even to address the issue of prejudice to defendants, and their lack of activity between the time the case was struck from the calendar and their court-ordered motion to restore fails to rebut the presumption of abandonment. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Sweeny, Nardelli and Freedman, JJ.