Jaybar Realty Corp. v. Armato

Full title: Jaybar Realty Corp., et al., plaintiffs, v. Joseph Armato, et al.…

Court: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

Date published: Jul 6, 2016

2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 5360 (N.Y. App. Div. 2016)

Opinion

2014-06430

07-06-2016

Jaybar Realty Corp., et al., plaintiffs, v. Joseph Armato, et al., defendants, Capital One, N.A., also known as Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., also known as Capital One Financial Corp., defendant third-party plaintiff-appellant; Sovereign Bank, N.A., also known as Banco Santander, S.A., third-party defendant-respondent.

Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid, P.C., Melville, NY (Joseph C. Savino of counsel), for defendant third-party plaintiff-appellant. Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLC, New York, NY (John Falzone of counsel; Finestein & Malloy, LLC [Michael D. Malloy, pro hac vice, and Russell M. Finestein], former counsel on the brief), for third-party defendant-respondent.

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN JOSEPH J. MALTESE COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ. (Index No. 57692/13)

Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid, P.C., Melville, NY (Joseph C. Savino of counsel), for defendant third-party plaintiff-appellant.

Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLC, New York, NY (John Falzone of counsel; Finestein & Malloy, LLC [Michael D. Malloy, pro hac vice, and Russell M. Finestein], former counsel on the brief), for third-party defendant-respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for the conversion of certain checks, the defendant third-party plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Smith, J.), dated May 19, 2014, as granted the motion of the third-party defendant pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) to dismiss the third-party complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly granted the third-party defendant's motion pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) to dismiss the third-party complaint. Accepting the allegations in the third-party complaint as true, and affording the defendant third-party plaintiff the benefit of every favorable inference (see Romanello v Intesa Sanpaolo, S.p.A., 22 NY3d 881, 884; Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87), the third-party complaint failed to state a cause of action under UCC 3-405(1)(a) (see Pellicio v Hartford Life Ins. Co., 262 AD2d 293, 294; Shube v Cheng, 157 Misc 2d 255, 259, affd 208 AD2d 606). The third-party complaint also failed to state a cause of action for common-law indemnification and contribution (see CPLR 3013; Raquet v Braun, 90 NY2d 177, 183; Seldin v Smith, 76 AD3d 623, 625).

The defendant third-party plaintiff's remaining contention is without merit.

RIVERA, J.P., ROMAN, MALTESE and DUFFY, JJ., concur. ENTER: Aprilanne Agostino Clerk of the Court