Ruby Falls, Inc. v Ruby Falls Partners, LLC
2007 NY Slip Op 03119 [39 AD3d 619]
April 10, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 6, 2007


Ruby Falls, Inc., Appellant,
v
Ruby Falls Partners, LLC, Respondent.

[*1] Gutman & Gutman, LLP, Mineola, N.Y. (Lawrence C. Gutman of counsel), for appellant.

Adam B. Kaufman & Associates, PLLC, Garden City, N.Y. (Stuart R. Lang of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover on a promissory note, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Mahon, J.), entered September 20, 2006, which granted that branch of the defendant's motion which was to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1).

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the defendant's motion which was to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) is denied.

"A motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the action is barred by documentary evidence may be granted only where the documentary evidence utterly refutes the plaintiff's factual allegations, thereby conclusively establishing a defense as a matter of law (see Goshen v Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 98 NY2d 314, 326 [2002]; Williams v Williams, 36 AD3d 693 [2007]; Martin v New York Hosp. Med. Ctr. of Queens, 34 AD3d 650 [2006])" (Mendelovitz v Cohen, 37 AD3d 670, 670-671 [2007]). Here, the documentary evidence submitted by the defendant failed to resolve all factual issues as a matter of law and did not conclusively dispose of the plaintiff's claim. Accordingly, the defendant was not entitled to dismissal of the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1).

In light of the foregoing, we need not consider the plaintiff's remaining contention. Rivera, J.P., Dillon, Angiolillo and Dickerson, JJ., concur.