Provident Bank v Giannasca
2008 NY Slip Op 08111 [55 AD3d 812]
October 21, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008


Provident Bank, Respondent,
v
Edward V. Giannasca,Defendant, and Thomas Riordan, Appellant.

[*1]Edward C. Greenberg (Kornfeld & Associates, P.C., New York, N.Y. [Oren L. Sibony andRandy M. Kornfeld], of counsel), for appellant.

Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP, New York, N.Y. (Anthony J. Sylvester andJonathan P. Vuotto of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover on a guaranty, the defendant Thomas Riordan appeals, as limited by hisbrief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Nelson, J.), enteredSeptember 25, 2007, as, upon an order of the same court dated August 24, 2007, granting theplaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the complaint, is in favor of the plaintiff and against him in theprincipal sum of $644,000. The appellant's notice of appeal from the order dated August 24, 2007, isdeemed to be a notice of appeal from the judgment entered September 25, 2007 (see CPLR5512 [a]).

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The plaintiff made a prima facie showing of its entitlement to summary judgment by submitting proofof the existence of an underlying note, a guaranty executed by the appellant, and a failure to makepayment in accordance with the terms of the note and guaranty (see Verela v Citrus Lake Dev., Inc., 53 AD3d 574 [2008]; Northport Car Wash, Inc. v Northport CarCare, LLC, 52 AD3d 794 [2008]; North Fork Bank Corp. v Graphic Forms Assoc., Inc., 36 AD3d 676[2007]; JPMorgan Chase Bank vGamut-Mitchell, Inc., 27 AD3d 622 [2006]; Sacco v Sutera, 266 AD2d 446[1999]). In opposition to the motion, the appellant failed to raise [*2]atriable issue of fact with respect to a bona fide defense (see Verela v Citrus Lake Dev., Inc., 53 AD3d 574 [2008]; Famolaro v Crest Offset, Inc., 24 AD3d604 [2005]; Sacco v Sutera, 266 AD2d 446 [1999]). Although the appellant claims thatthe plaintiff negligently advanced funds to the principal debtor in violation of a building loan agreement,this claim is not properly before us because it is raised for the first time on appeal, and is based uponnew factual allegations which are outside the record (see e.g. Gallagher v Gallagher, 51 AD3d 718 [2008]; Edme v Tanenbaum, 50 AD3d 624[2008]; Ozelkan v Tyree Bros. Envtl. Servs.,Inc., 29 AD3d 877 [2006]; Weber v Jacobs, 289 AD2d 226 [2001]).

The appellant's further contention that summary judgment should not have been granted becausethe plaintiff failed to include copies of the pleadings with its motion papers is also not properly beforethis Court, as it is raised for the first time on appeal (see Blazynski v A. Gareleck & Sons, Inc., 48 AD3d 1168 [2008]; Medina v MSDW 140 Broadway Prop.,L.L.C., 13 AD3d 67 [2004]). Mastro, J.P., Angiolillo, Carni and Eng, JJ., concur.


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