On plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, defendants' various defenses to the guarantee in issue were all based on their own alleged agreements with plaintiff, and properly rejected on the ground that "a party who enters into an unconditional guarantee of payment may not assert setoffs or defenses which arise independently from the guarantee" (Marcus Dairy v Jacene Realty Corp.,
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