Opinion
No. 2010–2785KC.
2012-03-5
NATIONAL LOAN RECOVERIES, LLC, Respondent, v. Antonio SMITH, Appellant.
PRESENT: PESCE, P.J., WESTON and RIOS, JJ.
Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Robin K. Sheares, J.), entered August 6, 2010. The order denied defendant's motion to vacate a default judgment.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for breach of a credit card agreement and upon an account stated. A default judgment was entered against defendant on August 30, 2006. Defendant moved to vacate the default judgment, alleging, among other things, that he had not been served. In opposition to the motion, plaintiff submitted the process server's affidavit of service as evidence of proper service. The Civil Court denied defendant's motion.
The affidavit of plaintiff's process server attesting to the “nail and mail” service of the summons and complaint ( seeCPLR 308[4] ) constituted prima facie evidence of proper service. Defendant's conclusory denial of receipt of the summons and complaint was insufficient to rebut the presumption of proper service ( see Irwin Mtge. Corp. v. Devis, 72 AD3d 743 [2010];Roberts v. Anka, 45 AD3d 752 [2007] ).
As defendant failed to establish a reasonable excuse for his default, it is unnecessary to consider whether he sufficiently demonstrated the existence of a meritorious defense ( see Levi v. Levi, 46 AD3d 519 [2007] ). Accordingly, the order is affirmed.