Lot 1555 Corp. v. Nahzi

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul G. Feinman, J.), entered November 24, 2009, which, to the extent appealed as limited by the briefs, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the action on the basis of res judicata, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

“[W]here there is a valid final judgment the doctrine of res judicata, or claim preclusion, bars future litigation between those parties on the same causes of action” (Matter of Hodes v Axelrod, 70 NY2d 364, 372 [1987]). This doctrine is based on the principle that a “judgment in one action is conclusive in a later one not only as to any…