Christiano v. Solovieff Realty Co., L.L.C.

Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered December 4, 2008, which granted plaintiffs’ motion to restore the action to the trial calendar, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion denied and the complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

Plaintiffs failed to meet the criteria for vacating an automatic dismissal pursuant to CPLR 3404 (see Aguilar v Djonvic, 282 AD2d 366 [2001]). Their affidavit of merit was conclusory, they offered no reasonable explanation for their failure to proceed with discovery for nearly two years, they…