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IN RE: CAVE CREEK INVESTMENTS, INC., et al., Petitioners–Respondents, v. URBAN FT GROUP, INC., et al., Respondents–Appellants.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered on or about February 20, 2019, which granted petitioners' application for post-judgment disclosure to the extent of directing respondents to produce documents responsive to the subpoena, as clarified and narrowed by the four categories of documents articulated on page 6 of petitioner's memorandum of law, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Respondents' argument that they should not have to produce documents unrelated to the subject matter of the underlying lawsuit misconstrues the law. CPLR 5223, the relevant provision, speaks to the production of documents and materials relevant to the enforcement of the judgment. There is no requirement thereunder that the produced documents be relevant to the subject of the underlying lawsuit. Petitioners' requests, as redrafted, narrowed, and defined on page 6 of their memorandum of law in support of the motion and adopted by the motion court, are relevant to petitioners' enforcement of the judgment (see Gryphon Dom. VI, LLC v. GBR Info. Servs., Inc. 29 A.D.3d 392, 815 N.Y.S.2d 65 [1st Dept. 2006]; see also U.S. Bank N.A. v. APP Intl. Fin. Co., B.V., 100 A.D.3d 179, 183, 952 N.Y.S.2d 533 [1st Dept. 2012]). They are as follows:
Documents detailing the Urban FT entities' organizational structure, such as organizational charts, which shed light on how the Urban FT entities relate to one another.
Urban FT's communications with Digiliti during the merger period, communications with third-parties relating to the Digiliti merger, and documents and public statements relating to the merger that are relevant to how the merger failed to be consummated, why Urban FT nevertheless retained Digiliti's assets, or where those assets might now be located.
Documents relating to Urban FT's appropriation, possession, or disposition of Digiliti's assets, where Digiliti's assets might now be located, and the extent to which Urban FT realized revenue from its use or sale of such assets.
Executed copies of the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of September 1, 2017 and the Security Agreement dated as of September 1, 2017.
This clarification and narrowing of the request in the subpoenas will ensure that each is tailored to aid petitioners in enforcing the judgment, rather than for some other purpose.
We have considered respondents' remaining contentions and find them unavailing.
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Docket No: 10263N
Decided: October 22, 2019
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
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