Dyer v Armor Kone El., Inc.

Dyer v Armor Kone El., Inc. 2007 NY Slip Op 05546 [41 AD3d 305] June 26, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Clytie Dyer, Plaintiff,
v
Armor Kone Elevator, Inc., et al., Respondents, Southern Boulevard Realty Co., Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v City of New York, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

—[*1] Michael A. Cardozo, New York (Ronald E. Sternberg of counsel), for appellant.

Costello, Shea & Gaffney LLP, New York (Sooyung T.A. Lee of counsel), for Armor Kone Elevator, Inc. and Montgomery Kone, Inc. respondents.

Eustace & Marquez, White Plains (Rose M. Cotter of counsel), for Southern Boulevard Realty Co., Inc. respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Paul A. Victor, J.), entered March 3, 2006, which granted the motion of defendants Armor Kone Elevator, Inc. and Montgomery Kone, Inc. to strike the answer of third-party defendant City of New York for failure to comply with discovery, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly exercised its discretion in striking third-party defendant's answer pursuant to CPLR 3126 (3) in light of that party's pattern of noncompliance with court orders and discovery demands over a six-year period (see Jones v Green, 34 AD3d 260 [2006]; [*2]Goldstein v CIBC World Mkts. Corp., 30 AD3d 217 [2006]; Min Yoon v Costello, 29 AD3d 407 [2006]; see also Kihl v Pfeffer, 94 NY2d 118 [1999]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Andrias, Williams and McGuire, JJ.