Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
While the dismissal of an action for failure to obey a disclosure order is a drastic penalty, a court may impose such a penalty in the exercise of its sound discretion where the conduct of the recalcitrant party is willful and contumacious (see, e.g., Zletz v Wetanson,
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