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AS LONG AS PLAINTIFF TAKES SOME ACTION THAT WOULD LEAD TO ENTRY OF A DEFAULT JUDGMENT WITHIN ONE YEAR AND NINETY DAYS OF THE DEFAULT, THE ACTION SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED AS ABANDONED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing the sua sponte dismissal of the foreclosure complaint, noted that as long as a plaintiff initiates some action for the entry of judgment within one year and ninety days after a default, the action should not be dismissed as abandoned. Here the plaintiff made a request for judicial intervention within one year and ninety days:

… [P]laintiff demonstrated that, within one year after the defendants’ default, it filed a request for judicial intervention which sought a foreclosure settlement conference within the foreclosure action as mandated by CPLR 3408. “Where, as here, a settlement conference is a necessary prerequisite to obtaining a default judgment (see CPLR 3408[a], [m]), a formal judicial request for such a conference in connection with an ongoing demand for the ultimate relief sought in the complaint constitutes ‘proceedings for entry of judgment’ within the meaning of CPLR 3215(c)” … . Since the plaintiff demonstrated that it initiated proceedings for the entry of a judgment of foreclosure and sale within one year after the defendants’ default, it was not required to proffer a reasonable excuse or demonstrate a potentially meritorious cause of action (see CPLR 3215[c] …). US Bank N.A. v Jerriho-Cadogan, 2024 NY Slip Op 00790, Second Dept 2-14-24

Practice Point: Here in this foreclosure action the bank made a request for judicial intervention within one year and ninety days of the default. The action should not have been dismissed as abandoned.

 

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