Opinion
13496-13496A Index No. 654109/15 Case No. 2019-05122
04-01-2021
BANCO INDUSVAL S.A., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Antonio Carlos GONCALVES Jr., Defendant-Respondent.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York (Howard S. Zelbo of counsel), for appellant. McLaughlin & Stern LLP, New York (Paul H. Levinson of counsel), for respondent.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York (Howard S. Zelbo of counsel), for appellant.
McLaughlin & Stern LLP, New York (Paul H. Levinson of counsel), for respondent.
Manzanet–Daniels, J.P., Kern, Gonza´lez, Shulman, JJ.
Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Lynn R. Kotler, J.), entered October 9, 2019, and May 6, 2020, which, respectively, denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and, upon reargument, adhered to that determination (see CPLR 5517[b] ), unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff failed to establish that the alleged Brazilian money judgment of which it seeks recognition and enforcement pursuant to CPLR article 53 "grants or denies the recovery of a sum of money" ( CPLR 5303 ). With respect to the documents on which plaintiff relies, the motion court correctly observed, "This court is not required to step into the shoes of the Brazilian court to determine/compute the amount owed by defendant in order to issue a money judgment" (see CIBC Mellon Trust Co. v. Mora Hotel Corp., 100 N.Y.2d 215, 222, 762 N.Y.S.2d 5, 792 N.E.2d 155 [2003] [judgment creditor "merely asks the court to perform its ministerial function of recognizing the foreign country money judgment and converting it into a New York judgment"] [internal quotation marks omitted], cert denied 540 U.S. 948, 124 S.Ct. 399, 157 L.Ed.2d 279 [2003] ).