AARON KEVEN DANIELSON v. JAN PETRUS HUMAN POWER AMERICAS INC POWER WORLDWIDE LLC POWER ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES INC JOHN DOES 100 (2017)

Albertus Johannes Human appeals the district court's order denying relief on his untimely Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion for reconsideration of its entry of default judgment. We review the district court's finding that Human's Rule 60(b) motion was untimely for abuse of discretion. Moses v. Joyner, 815 F.3d 163, 166 (4th Cir.), petition for cert. filed, __ U.S.L.W.__ (U.S. Aug. 5, 2016) (No. 16-5507).

A district court “may set aside a final default judgment under Rule 60(b),” Fed. R. Civ. P. 55(c), and such a motion must be filed within “a reasonable time,” Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(c)(1). A movant seeking relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b) must make a threshold showing of “timeliness, a meritorious defense, a lack of unfair prejudice to the opposing party, and exceptional circumstances.” Dowell v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Auto. Ins. Co., 993 F.2d 46, 48 (4th Cir. 1993) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Park Corp. v. Lexington Ins. Co., 812 F.2d 894, 896 (4th Cir. 1987) (holding that a movant must show that his motion is timely, that he has a meritorious defense, and that there would be no unfair prejudice and that, “[i]f the moving party makes such a showing, he must then satisfy one or more of the six grounds for relief set forth in Rule 60(b)”).

We conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that Human's Rule 60(b) motion, filed more than 2 years after entry of judgment and more than 10 months after an enforcement action was filed, was untimely. Accordingly, we affirm the district court's judgment. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

PER CURIAM: