Agai v. Diontech Consulting, Inc.
| Decision Date | 06 April 2016 |
| Docket Number | 2013-10303, Index Nos. 102968/07, 100103/10. |
| Parties | In the Matter of Jacob AGAI, et al., petitioners-respondents, v. DIONTECH CONSULTING, INC., et al., respondents, Stylianos Antoniou, et al., respondents-appellants. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
138 A.D.3d 736
29 N.Y.S.3d 441
2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 02646
In the Matter of Jacob AGAI, et al., petitioners-respondents,
v.
DIONTECH CONSULTING, INC., et al., respondents,
Stylianos Antoniou, et al., respondents-appellants.
2013-10303, Index Nos. 102968/07, 100103/10.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
April 6, 2016.
Silverberg, P.C., Central Islip, N.Y., for respondents-appellants.
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, New York, N.Y. (Michael P. Bowen of counsel), for petitioners-respondents.
WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P., L. PRISCILLA HALL, ROBERT J. MILLER, and HECTOR D. LaSALLE, JJ.
In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 52, inter alia, to enforce two judgments, Stylianos Antoniou and Sokrates Antoniou appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Dollard, J.), entered August 29, 2013, as granted that branch of the petitioners' motion which was for summary judgment on so much of the petition as sought to enforce the judgments against them personally by piercing the corporate veil of Diontech Consulting, Inc., and denied their cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the petition insofar as asserted against them.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
In underlying actions entitled Agai v. Diontech Consulting, Inc., and Diontech Consulting, Inc., v. 291 Avenue P, LLC, which were commenced in the Supreme Court, Richmond County, under Index Nos. 102968/07 and 100103/10, respectively, the petitioners obtained two judgments
against Diontech Consulting, Inc. (hereinafter Diontech). The petitioners commenced this proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 52, inter alia, to enforce the judgments personally against two of Diontech's alleged principals, Stylianos Antoniou and Sokrates Antoniou (hereinafter together the appellants), by piercing the corporate veil of Diontech. The...
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