Court Opinion

ID: 6034621
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 13:11:40.563138+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:24.619222
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—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Braun, J.), entered on or about December 15, 1997, which denied plaintiffs’ motion to renew and upon renewal to vacate a prior order entered upon their default granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The IAS Court properly denied plaintiffs’ motion to renew (see, Silverman v Leucadia Inc., 159 AD2d 254). In any event, on the merits, plaintiffs failed to establish either a reasonable excuse for their default or that their claim was meritorious (see, Goncalves v Stuyvesant Dev. Assocs., 232 AD2d 275). Plaintiffs’ affidavit of merit, containing little else but conclusory allegations, failed to make a sufficient showing that the alleged assault was foreseeable, or that it was proximately caused by some breach by defendants of a duty owed by them to plaintiffs (compare., Bonano v S.Z. Realty Corp., 256 AD2d 268). Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Wallach, Lerner and Rubin, JJ.