Under the circumstances presented, Supreme Court properly denied plaintiff's motion for a default judgment. Defendants were technically in default when they failed to timely answer or move to dismiss after they filed their notice of appearance (see e.g. Hammond v Equinox Holdings LLC, 197 A.D.3d 1039, 1040 [1st Dept 2021]). Nonetheless, as Supreme Court noted in the order on appeal, in an earlier hearing on the motion, the court had sua sponte allowed plaintiff to...
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