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Sterling Recoveries, Inc. v. Mejia

Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 29, 2009
2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 52647 (N.Y. App. Term 2009)

Opinion

570609

Decided December 29, 2009.

Defendant appeals from (1) an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, New York County (Geoffrey D. Wright, J.), entered June 25, 2007, which granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in the principal sum of $21,054.06, and (2) an order (same court and Judge), entered May 12, 2008, which, upon reargument, adhered to the prior determination.

Order (Geoffrey D. Wright, J.), entered May 12, 2008, modified to the extent of reducing plaintiff's recovery to the sum of $14,726.94, with interest from March 31, 2004, and remanding the matter to Civil Court for calculation of such interest and entry of judgment accordingly; as modified, affirmed, without costs. Appeal from order (same court and Judge), entered June 25, 2007, dismissed, without costs, as superseded by the appeal from the order on reargument.

PRESENT: McKeon, P.J., Shulman, Hunter, JJ.


Plaintiff demonstrated its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on its cause of action for the amount owed on the credit card issued to defendant. In opposition, defendant failed to raise a triable issue as to liability. Although plaintiff failed to annex a copy of its complaint to the motion papers, the record was "sufficiently complete" and a copy of the amended complaint is contained in the record on appeal ( see Green v Wood, 6 AD3d 976; see also Trump Village Section 3, Inc. v New York State Hous. Fin. Agency, 307 AD2d 891, 894 n 3 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 504).

Inasmuch as plaintiff failed to establish its entitlement to a 16% per annum rate of interest, we modify to the extent of granting plaintiff interest at the statutory rate from March 31, 2004 ( see Brady v Zambrana, 221 AD2d 171, 172; Levy, King White Adv., Inc. v Gallery of Homes, Inc., 177 AD2d 967, 968).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.


Summaries of

Sterling Recoveries, Inc. v. Mejia

Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 29, 2009
2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 52647 (N.Y. App. Term 2009)
Case details for

Sterling Recoveries, Inc. v. Mejia

Case Details

Full title:STERLING RECOVERIES, INC., Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ELIZABETH MEJIA…

Court:Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Dec 29, 2009

Citations

2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 52647 (N.Y. App. Term 2009)