Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Noach Dear, J.), entered July 28, 2011. The order denied defendant's motion to vacate a default judgment.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs.

A defendant seeking to vacate a default judgment must demonstrate both a reasonable excuse for the default and a meritorious defense to the action (see CPLR 5015 [a] [1]; Eugene Di Lorenzo, Inc. v A.C. Dutton Lbr. Co., 67 NY2d 138, 141 [1986]; Hodges v Sidial, 48 AD3d 633, 634 [2008]; Hageman v Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., 25 AD3d 760 [2006]). The determination of what constitutes a reasonable excuse lies within the sound discretion of the motion court (see Matter of Gambardella v Ortov Light., 278 AD2d 494 [2000]).

Here, defendant failed to proffer a reasonable excuse for her default in appearing at a scheduled court date on May 6, 2011. Defendant's excuse, that her attorney was given a court date which was changed without notice to a later date pursuant to Civil Court scheduling policies, lacks merit. Defendant would have learned that the appearance was rescheduled had she and her attorney appeared on May 4, 2011, the originally scheduled court date. In view of the [*2]lack of a reasonable excuse for the default, it is unnecessary to consider whether defendant sufficiently demonstrated the existence of a meritorious defense (see Levi v Levi, 46 AD3d 519 [2007]). As the Civil Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying defendant's motion, the order is affirmed.

Pesce, P.J., Rios and Solomon, JJ., concur.
Decision Date: February 11, 2013