Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
A court is authorized to strike the pleadings of a party who "refuses to obey an order for disclosure or willfully fails to disclose information which the court finds ought to have been disclosed" (CPLR 3126 [3]). Striking a pleading is appropriate where a party's conduct in resisting disclosure is shown to be willful and contumacious (see Kryzhanovskaya v City of New York,
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