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MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CANNOT BE BROUGHT WHERE DEFENDANT HAS ONLY FILED A NOTICE OF APPEARANCE, FORECLOSURE ACTION PROPERLY DISMISSED AS ABANDONED PURSUANT TO CPLR 3215 (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined the bank’s motion for summary judgment in this foreclosure proceeding could not be entertained because issue had not been joined, only a notice of appearance had been filed by defendant. The action was properly deemed abandoned pursuant to CPLR 3215:

Contrary to the plaintiff’s contention, the Supreme Court properly denied those branches of its motion which were for summary judgment on the complaint and for an order of reference. “A motion for summary judgment may not be made before issue is joined (CPLR 3212[a]) and the requirement is strictly adhered to” … . Where, as here, a defendant has served a notice of appearance, but has not served “a responsive pleading,” in this case, an answer (see CPLR 3011), issue has not been joined, and the plaintiff is barred from seeking summary judgment … . …

Here, the defendants were served with the summons and complaint on December 30, 2010. The defendant had “twenty days after service of the summons” to appear “by serving an answer or a notice of appearance, or by making a motion which has the effect of extending the time to answer” (CPLR 320[a]). … [T]he plaintiff’s time to bring a motion for leave to enter a default judgment expired on February 3, 2012, a year after the defendants’ default, but the plaintiff did not make such a motion until January 2015.

The plaintiff contends that the “sufficient cause shown” standard was met by the “significant delay” caused by an improper stipulation of discontinuance that was filed on February 22, 2013, and the proceedings it had to take to obtain an order dated August 15, 2013, vacating the stipulation and restoring the action to the calendar. However, … actions taken in 2013 and thereafter “offer no excuse as to why no action was taken within one year of the default, as required by statute.” In fact, this Court has held that “[a]n excuse which matures after the expiration of the statutory limit for entering a default judgment with the Clerk is legally insufficient to justify a plaintiff’s failure to enter the default judgment” … . For the same reason, there is no merit to the plaintiff’s argument that the same proceedings in 2013 established that it had not abandoned the action … . JBBNY, LLC v Begum, 2017 NY Slip Op 08816, Second Dept 12-20-17

 

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