Garrison Special Opportunities Fund, L.P. v. Arthur Kill Hillside Dev., LLC

Decision Date22 March 2011
Citation82 A.D.3d 1042,918 N.Y.S.2d 894
PartiesGARRISON SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND, L.P., respondent, v. ARTHUR KILL HILLSIDE DEVELOPMENT, LLC, et al., appellants, et al., defendants.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

Mark D. Mermel, Great Neck, N.Y., for appellants.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, New York, N.Y. (Matthew D. Parrott and James Tampellini of counsel), for respondent.

In an action, inter alia, to foreclose a mortgage, the defendants Arthur Kill Hillside Development, LLC, LP Arthur Kill Development, LLC, LP Hillside Arthur Kill Development, LLC, YLPF Trust, and Yehuda Leib Puretz appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Fusco, J.), dated December 2, 2009, as granted that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for summary judgment on the complaint insofar as asserted against the defendants Arthur Kill Hillside Development, LLC, LP Arthur Kill Development, LLC, LP Hillside Arthur Kill Development, LLC, and Yehuda Leib Puretz.

ORDERED that the appeal by the defendant YLPF Trust is dismissed, without costs or disbursements, as that defendant is not aggrieved by the order appealed from ( see CPLR 5511); and it is further,

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from by the defendants Arthur Kill Hillside Development, LLC, LP Arthur Kill Development, LLC, LP Hillside Arthur Kill Development, LLC, and Yehuda Leib Puretz; and it is further,

ORDERED that one bill of costs is awarded to the respondent, payable by the defendants Arthur Kill Hillside Development, LLC, LP Arthur Kill Development, LLC, LP Hillside Arthur Kill Development, LLC, and Yehuda Leib Puretz.

The plaintiff commenced this action against, among others, the defendants Arthur Kill Hillside Development, LLC, LP Arthur Kill Development, LLC, and LP Hillside Arthur Kill Development, LLC (hereinafter collectively the borrowers), to foreclose a commercial mortgage and for related relief. The plaintiff subsequently moved for summary judgment on the complaint insofar as asserted against the borrowers and Yehuda Leib Puretz, the managing member of all three borrowers and guarantor of a mortgage loan made by the plaintiff to the borrowers (hereinafter collectively the appellants). The Supreme Court granted the plaintiff's motion.

"The plaintiff met its initial burden of establishing its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by producing the mortgage, the unpaid note, and documentation...

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