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MOTION TO DISMISS THE BREACH OF CONTRACT ACTION BASED ON DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE PURSUANT TO CPLR 3211 (a)(1) SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendant condominium-board-of-managers’ motion to dismiss plaintiff condominium-owner’s complaint based on documentary evidence should have been granted:

The plaintiff commenced this action against the defendant Board of Managers … (hereinafter the Board) … challenging the Board’s allocation of common expenses, after the Condominium’s first year of operation, in accordance with the first-year budget set forth in the Condominium offering plan. The plaintiff alleged that this method of allocating common expenses following the Condominium’s first year was a breach of the Board’s contractual duties and resulted in an overassessment of common charges to the plaintiff. * * *

As to the breach of contract cause of action, “[t]o succeed on a motion to dismiss based upon documentary evidence pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1), the documentary evidence must utterly refute the plaintiff’s factual allegations, conclusively establishing a defense as a matter of law” … . Here, the Condominium offering plan, declaration, and bylaws (hereinafter collectively the governing documents) utterly refuted the plaintiff’s factual allegations and conclusively established a defense as a matter of law to the breach of contract cause of action. In particular, the plaintiff admitted in the amended complaint that the common charges assessed to its unit since the inception of its ownership have been in accordance with the allocations set forth in “Schedule B — First Year’s Budget,” contained in the offering plan. The plaintiff’s allegation that the Board was obligated to reallocate the common expenses after the first year of the Condominium’s operation, based upon an assessment of the commercial unit owners’ actual use of and benefit from the services and other items covered by the common expenses, is refuted by the governing documents. Those documents do not provide for an assessment of actual use and benefits, but rather, specify that, on at least a yearly basis, the Board will “allocate and assess [the] Common Charges amongst the Unit Owners in accordance with allocations set forth in the First Year’s Budget.” 189 Schermerhorn Owners Co., LLC v Board of Mgrs. of the Be@Schermerhorn Condominium, 2020 NY Slip Op 05021, Second Dept 9-23-20

 

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