Court Opinion

ID: 146772
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2010-05-20 00:00:27+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:24:02.476005
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10-0528-cv
Esbin & Alter, LLP v. Zappier

                                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                         FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                               SUMMARY ORDER
        Rulings by summary order do not have precedential effect. Citation to a summary order filed
on or after January 1, 2007, is permitted and is governed by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1
and this court’s Local Rule 32.1.1. When citing a summary order in a document filed with this court,
a party must cite either the Federal Appendix or an electronic database (with the notation
“summary order”). A party citing a summary order must serve a copy of it on any party not
represented by counsel.
        At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the
Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of New York, on
the 19th day of May, two thousand ten.

PRESENT:
                     JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
                     ROBERT A. KATZMANN ,
                                  Circuit Judges,
                     J. GARVAN MURTHA ,
                                  District Judge.*

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ESBIN & ALTER, LLP,

                     Plaintiff-Appellant,

                     v.                                                            No. 10-0528-cv

PAUL ZAPPIER, ADVANCED TRADE SETTLEMENT, LLC, SABHARWAL, GLOBUS & LIM , LLP, RAD
TECHNOLOGIES, INC .,

                     Defendants-Appellees.

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FOR APPELLANT:                                                 DANIEL STUART ALTER , Alter & Alter LLP, New York,
                                                               NY.

FOR APPELLEES:                                                 PAUL M. FAKLER , Moses & Singer LLP, New York, NY.

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          The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, United States District Court for the District of
  Vermont, sitting by designation.

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Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
(Robert W. Sweet, Judge).

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND
DECREED that the appeal be DISMISSED.

        Plaintiff Esbin & Alter, LLP appeals from the February 4, 2010 order of the District Court
granting, in part, plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction. Plaintiff filed a notice of appeal on
February 17, 2010. After plaintiff filed its notice of appeal, defendant timely filed a motion pursuant to
Rule 59(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. That motion is currently pending before the District
Court. We assume parties’ familiarity with the facts and procedural history of this case.

        First, we consider whether we have jurisdiction to consider this appeal. Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(i) of the
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure states that “[i]f a party files a notice of appeal after the court
announces . . . a judgment—but before it disposes of [a Rule 59(e) motion]—the notice becomes
effective to appeal a judgment or order . . . when the order disposing of the last such remaining motion
is entered.” See also New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps., Inc. v. Meyers, 542 F.3d 101, 120 (2d Cir.
2006) (stating that “the notice of appeal simply does not become effective before an order disposing of
[the pending Rule 59] motion has been entered”). Because the notice of appeal is not yet effective, we
do not have jurisdiction to consider this appeal. See Hertzner v. Henderson, 292 F.3d 302, 303-04 (Sd Cir.
2002).

        Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED without prejudice to plaintiff filing a second notice of
appeal upon the District Court’s resolution of the pending Rule 59(e) motion.

                                                 FOR THE COURT:
                                                 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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