Opinion
9311 Index 160847/16
05-14-2019
Thomas J. ORR, etc., Plaintiff–Respondent, v. URBAN AMERICAN MANAGEMENT CORP., et al., Defendants–Appellants.
Eustace, Marquez, Epstein, Prezioso & Yapchanyk, New York (Christopher M. Yapchanyk of counsel), for Urban American Management Corp. and Urban Greenfit SPV, LLC, appellants. Law Offices of Tobias & Kuhn, New York (Ioana Wenchell of counsel), for Wellspring Wireless, Inc., appellant. McManimon, Scotland & Baumann, LLC, New York (Andrea Dobin of counsel), for respondent.
Eustace, Marquez, Epstein, Prezioso & Yapchanyk, New York (Christopher M. Yapchanyk of counsel), for Urban American Management Corp. and Urban Greenfit SPV, LLC, appellants.
Law Offices of Tobias & Kuhn, New York (Ioana Wenchell of counsel), for Wellspring Wireless, Inc., appellant.
McManimon, Scotland & Baumann, LLC, New York (Andrea Dobin of counsel), for respondent.
Sweeny, J.P., Richter, Manzanet–Daniels, Webber, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lynn R. Kotler, J.), entered June 25, 2018, which denied defendants' motions to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court properly declined to dismiss the instant action as time-barred. Plaintiff bankruptcy trustee may benefit from the CPLR 205(a) extension provision to render the instant action timely, notwithstanding the one-month gap between the November 2016 dismissal of the prior action, brought by debtor Leon Kartsanis, and the December 2016 commencement of the instant action by the trustee ( Goodman v. Skanska USA Civ., Inc., 169 A.D.3d 1010, 95 N.Y.S.3d 243 [2d Dept. 2019] ; Rivera v. Markowitz, 71 A.D.3d 449, 450, 897 N.Y.S.2d 50 [1st Dept. 2010] ).
The reopening of Kartsanis's bankruptcy case renders the doctrine of judicial estoppel inapplicable as it "nullif[ied] the final determination upon which judicial estoppel could be predicated" ( Goodman, 169 A.D.3d at 1013, 95 N.Y.S.3d 243 ; Koch v. National Basketball Assn., 245 A.D.2d 230, 230–31, 666 N.Y.S.2d 630 [1st Dept. 1997] ).
We have considered defendants' remaining contentions and find them unavailing.