| Ascani v EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. |
| 2011 NY Slip Op 05210 [85 AD3d 830] |
| June 14, 2011 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Danielle Ascani, Respondent, v EI Du Pont De Nemours &Company et al., Defendants, and WASCO Wholesale Auto Supply Corp.,Appellant. |
—[*1] Locks Law Firm, New York, N.Y. (Andrew J. DuPont and Janet Walsh of counsel), forrespondent.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant WASCO WholesaleAuto Supply Corp. appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (F. Rivera, J.),entered December 1, 2009, which denied its motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss thecomplaint insofar as asserted against it and for costs and an award of an attorney's fee pursuant toCPLR 8303-a.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
In considering a motion to dismiss a complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7), "the courtmust accept the facts as alleged in the complaint as true, accord plaintiffs the benefit of everypossible favorable inference, and determine only whether the facts as alleged fit within anycognizable legal theory" (Sokol vLeader, 74 AD3d 1180, 1181 [2010] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Nonnon v City of New York, 9NY3d 825, 827 [2007]; Rovello v Orofino Realty Co., 40 NY2d 633, 635 [1976]).Here, the evidentiary materials submitted by the defendant WASCO Wholesale Auto SupplyCorp. (hereinafter the appellant), consisting largely of affidavits and deposition testimony, didnot establish that " 'a material fact as claimed by the pleader to be one is not a fact at all' " andthat " 'no significant dispute exists regarding it' " (Sokol v Leader, 74 AD3d at 1182,quoting Guggenheimer v Ginzburg, 43 NY2d 268, 275 [1977]). Thus, the Supreme Courtproperly denied that branch of the appellant's motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7)to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against it for failure to state a cause of action.
The appellant's remaining contention is without merit. Covello, J.P., Leventhal, Lott andMiller, JJ., concur.