SIMPSON v. Roman Osmanov, Defendant. (2024)

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bianka Perez, J.), entered June 28, 2022, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendant Pasha Enterprises Corp.'s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted.  The Clerk is directed to enter judgment dismissing the complaint.

In this action for personal injuries arising from a motor vehicle accident, defendant established prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that it did not own the vehicle that struck plaintiff;  in fact, it did not own any vehicles (see Cross v Supersonic Motor Messenger Courier, Inc., 140 AD3d 503, 504–505 [1st Dept 2016];  see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 388[1]), and was not the similarly named entity identified in the police accident report.

Moreover, the motion court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting an extension of time for plaintiff to file its opposition to defendant's motion where plaintiff neither submitted an application for such an extension, nor demonstrated good cause for the delay in filing (see Traders Co. v. AST Sportswear, Inc., 31 AD3d 276, 277 [1st Dept 2006]).  In any event, plaintiff's opposition failed to raise an issue of fact as to whether defendant owned the vehicle in question pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 128 (see also Vehicle and Traffic Law § 388[1]).