Person v. Einhorn

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard B. Lowe, III, J.), entered March 2, 2006, which sua sponte dismissed the complaint upon defendant Michael Einhorn’s motion, pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (2), to dismiss the second cause of action as to plaintiff Carl Person only and to stay the action pending arbitration, unanimously dismissed, without costs.

There is no right of appeal from an order entered sua sponte (Sholes v Meagher, 100 NY2d 333 [2003]). The proper procedure should have been for the plaintiff to move to vacate the order and appealed as of right if that motion was…