EBF Partners, LLC v. Novabella, Inc. d/b/a and Frank Terranova

Pyle, Judge.

Statement of the Case

[1] EBF Partners, LLC ("EBF") appeals the trial court's order dismissing with prejudice its petition to domesticate a foreign judgment from New York, which was entered pursuant to a confession of judgment in a cognovit note, against Novabella Inc. ("Novabella") and Frank Terranova ("Terranova"). EBF argues that the trial court erred by dismissing its petition and by failing to give full faith and credit to the New York judgment.

[2] Although cognovit notes are prohibited in Indiana, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of our Federal Constitution requires reversal…