A default judgment was not pursued within one year of the defendants-appellants' failure to respond to plaintiff's summons with notice. Thereafter, in response to defendants-appellants' resulting motion to dismiss, the standard was not met pursuant to CPLR 3215 (c). Therefore, the Supreme Court should have granted defendants-appellants' motion and dismissed the underlying action insofar as asserted against them (see Hoppenfeld v Hoppenfeld,
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