Bestin Realty, S.A. v. SCI Claridge

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara R. Kapnick, J.), entered October 23, 2013, which denied defendant’s motion to vacate a default judgment entered against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to vacate the default judgment pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) (3), because defendant failed to show that plaintiff committed fraud in procuring the judgment. Rather, defendant attempted to show that there was fraud in the underlying transaction (see Nichols v Curtis, 104 AD3d 526, 529 [1st Dept 2013]; Jericho Group, Ltd. v Midtown Dev., L.P., 47 AD3d…