Color Wheel, Inc. v. Interstate Printing Co.

Order, Supreme *162Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered June 14, 2000, which granted defendant’s motion to vacate a default judgment in the amount of $116,405.31, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion denied and the judgment and restraining order reinstated.

In order to vacate the default judgment, defendant needed to establish both a reasonable excuse and a meritorious defense (see, Goncalves v Stuyvesant Dev. Assocs., 232 AD2d 275; Dimitratos v City of New York, 180 AD2d 414). It succeeded in the former, but failed as to the latter. Defendant’s contention,…