Prinz v New York State Elec. & Gas
2011 NY Slip Op 02648 [82 AD3d 1199]
March 29, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 11, 2011


Gary Prinz, Appellant,
v
New York State Electric and Gas et al., Respondents.

[*1] Gerosa & Vanderwoude, Carmel, N.Y. (Neil Vanderwoude of counsel), for appellant.

Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP, Binghamton, N.Y. (Leslie Prechtl Guy of counsel), for respondents.

In an action to recover damages for fraud, breach of contract, and violation of due process, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (O'Rourke, J.), dated November 9, 2009, as denied those branches of his motion which were for leave to renew his opposition to the defendants' motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint, which was granted in an order of the same court dated August 19, 2009, and for leave to amend his complaint.

Ordered that the order dated November 9, 2009, is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to renew his opposition to the defendants' motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint, which had been granted by the Supreme Court in an earlier order. "A motion for leave to renew must be 'based upon new facts not offered on the prior motion that would change the prior determination' " (Jackson Hgts. Care Ctr., LLC v Bloch, 39 AD3d 477, 480 [2007], quoting CPLR 2221 [e] [2]; see Renna v Gullo, 19 AD3d 472, 473 [2005]; Kaufman v Kunis, 14 AD3d 542 [2005]). Here, the allegedly new facts offered would not have changed the prior determination (see CPLR 2221 [e] [2]; Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP v Albert, 78 AD3d 985 [2010]).

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court also properly denied that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to amend his complaint (see Kazakhstan Inv. Fund v Manolovici, 2 AD3d 249, 250 [2003]). Dickerson, J.P., Hall, Austin and Cohen, JJ., concur.