Tulino v Pipa, 2018 NY Slip Op 04022 [162 AD3d 709]

June 6, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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Eva Tulino, Appellant,

v

Valentin Pipa et al., Respondents.

Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C., New York, NY (Philip G. Pizzuto of counsel), for appellant.

Ramo, Nashak, Brown & Garibaldi LLP, Glendale, NY (Gregory Brown of counsel), for respondents.

In an action, inter alia, for a declaration that the plaintiff is the owner of eight shares of stock in the defendant Hull Avenue Development Corporation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Laura L. Jacobson, J.), dated August 27, 2015. The order denied the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff commenced this action alleging that the defendant Valentin Pipa breached a written agreement by failing to pay her for eight shares of stock in the defendant Hull Avenue Development Corporation (hereinafter Hull), and that the plaintiff was entitled to the return of the shares under the terms of the agreement. In the order appealed from, the Supreme Court denied the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on the complaint.

The plaintiff failed to meet her prima facie burden of showing that she was entitled to the return of her shares in Hull ( see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp. , 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986]; Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr. , 64 NY2d 851, 853 [1985]). The documents submitted by the plaintiff in support of her motion failed to establish what, if any, agreement she had entered into with Pipa. Since the plaintiff failed to make a prima facie showing, the Supreme Court properly denied her motion for summary judgment, regardless of the sufficiency of the opposition papers ( see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr. , 64 NY2d at 853). Austin, J.P., Roman, Sgroi and Connolly, JJ., concur..