| Matapos Tech. Ltd. v Compania Andina de Comercio Ltda |
| 2009 NY Slip Op 09713 [68 AD3d 672] |
| December 29, 2009 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Matapos Technology Limited, Respondent, v CompaniaAndina de Comercio Ltda, Also Known as Companex, Appellant. |
—[*1] Menaker & Herrmann, LLP, New York (Samuel F. Abernethy of counsel), forrespondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul G. Feinman, J.), entered December 22,2008, which granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in lieu of complaint and denieddefendant's cross motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff demonstrated it was a holder of the subject notes, and had a capacity to suethereunder. Defendant failed to demonstrate a genuine defense to the notes. The notes were madepayable to a Delaware corporation that later merged with another Delaware corporation, whichin turn assigned to plaintiff its rights to the notes. The surviving corporation had the power tomake that assignment (see Business Corporation Law § 906 [b]; Del Code Ann, tit8, § 259 [a]).
In its reply, plaintiff submitted a supplemental affidavit containing endorsements to thenotes, which had inadvertently been omitted on the initial moving papers. The court properlyconsidered this submission because defendant had made an issue of the omission in response tothe motion (see Matter of Kennelly vMobius Realty Holdings LLC, 33 AD3d 380, 382 [2006]; Ryan Mgt. Corp. vCataffo, 262 AD2d 628, 630 [1999]).
There were no triable issues of fact precluding the grant of summary judgment. Even if therehad been an issue as to whether defendant was given notice of the assignment of the notes, thecontrolling credit agreement provided that no failure by the lender to deliver a notice ofassignment would affect defendant's obligations. Accordingly, any purported issue of factregarding notice of the assignment is inconsequential. Nor is an indispensable party to the actionabsent.
Defendant has not preserved its argument that the foreign affidavits were invalid for lack ofthe certification required by CPLR 2309 (c) and Real Property Law § 299-a. In any event,the courts are not rigid about this requirement. As long as the oath is duly given, authenticationof the oathgiver's authority can be secured later, and given nunc pro tunc effect if necessary(see Siegel, Practice Commentaries, McKinney's Cons Laws of NY, Book 7B, CPLRC2309:3). The absence of such a certificate is a mere irregularity, and not a fatal defect (see Smith v Allstate Ins. Co., 38 AD3d522 [2007]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Acosta, DeGrasse and RomÁn,JJ.