Taboola, Inc. v Newsweek Media Group, Inc.
2019 NY Slip Op 02791 [171 AD3d 510]
April 11, 2019
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 29, 2019


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 Taboola, Inc., Respondent,
v
Newsweek Media Group, Inc., Formerly Known as IBT Media, Inc., et al., Appellants.

Becker & Poliakoff LLP, New York (Glenn H. Spiegel of counsel), for appellants.

Sher Tremonte LLP, New York (Mark Cuccaro of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joel M. Cohen, J.), entered on or about September 28, 2018, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendants' motion to vacate the judgment against them, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendants failed to present any basis for vacating the judgment in light of their admitted default under the settlement agreement. Absent any factual basis in the record to relieve defendants from enforcement of the judgment, where a stipulation of settlement is unambiguous, "literal enforcement of its terms is not unjust" (Cadlerock Joint Venture, L.P. v Rubenstein, 26 AD3d 219, 220 [1st Dept 2006]). Here, defendants have provided no facts to justify the invocation of the Court's inherent discretionary powers to relieve a party from judgment. Thus, strict enforcement of the second settlement agreement was warranted (see Mill Rock Plaza Assoc. v Lively, 224 AD2d 301, 301 [1st Dept 1996]).

We have considered defendants' remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Acosta, P.J., Manzanet-Daniels, Tom, Oing, JJ. [Prior Case History: 2018 NY Slip Op 32428(U).]