Hector Pino, appellant pro se. Sicheng Meng, respondent pro se.

Appeal from a judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Keisha M. Alleyne, J.), entered August 9, 2024. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $9,000.

ORDERED that the judgment is reversed, without costs, and the matter is remitted to the Civil Court for a new trial.

Plaintiff commenced this small claims action to recover the sum of $10,000. At a nonjury trial, plaintiff testified that the parties went on a vacation together and that the parties agreed that plaintiff would cover the expenses during the trip and that defendant would reimburse him afterwards. Plaintiff testified that, after the trip, defendant refused to reimburse plaintiff and verbally abused him, causing him emotional distress. Plaintiff seeks to recover the amounts charged to his credit cards, interest on those amounts that accrued up to the day of trial, costs of therapy he sought as a result, and miscellaneous costs for court filing, time spent on communications and preparation for court, and printing. Defendant disputed responsibility for a $1,600 charge and the accuracy of the amount of a credit on one of plaintiff's credit cards. Following a nonjury trial, the Civil Court (Keisha M. Alleyne, J.), in a decision dated August 6, 2024, found that plaintiff "has proven [his] prima facie case" and awarded him the principal sum of $9,000 without making any findings of fact or stating how it calculated the amount awarded. A judgment was subsequently entered on August 9, 2024, from which defendant appeals.

CPLR 4213 (b) provides that the decision of a trial court "shall state the facts it deems essential" (see Kolchin v Bay Ridge Nissan, Inc., 72 Misc 3d 135[A], 2021 NY Slip Op 50723[U] [App Term, 2d Dept, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2021]; RussianHotline.Com, Inc. v [*2]Oceana Holding Corp., 58 Misc 3d 152[A], 2018 NY Slip Op 50115[U] [App Term, 2d Dept, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2018]). "This provision applies to decisions rendered after trial in the Small Claims Part of the court" (Kolchin v Bay Ridge Nissan, Inc., 2021 NY Slip Op 50723[U], *1; see CCA 1805 [a]). Here, since the Civil Court did not make any findings of fact or state how it arrived at its award of $9,000, we cannot determine the basis for the court's determination and, thus, whether substantial justice has been done between the parties in accordance with the rules and principles of substantive law (CCA 1807, 1804).

Accordingly, the judgment is reversed and the matter is remitted to the Civil Court for a new trial.

QUIÑONES, J.P., MUNDY and OTTLEY, JJ., concur.