Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Lall

Order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, entered on or about October 15, 2013, which affirmed a judgment, Civil Court, Bronx County (Mitchell J. Danziger, J.), entered April 18, 2012, after a nonjury trial, in plaintiffs favor, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs proof of the underlying debt obligation was shown through defendant’s testimony that he used the credit card issued by plaintiffs assignor and by the self-authenticating account statements (see Merrill Lynch Bus. Fin. Servs. Inc. v Trataros Constr., Inc., 30 AD3d 336 [1st Dept 2006], lv denied 7…