In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the third-party defendant appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Galasso, J.), dated April 20, 2012, as denied his motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly denied the third-party defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint. The third-party defendant failed to demonstrate his prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, since
Since the third-party defendant failed to establish his prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, we need not examine the sufficiency of the papers submitted in opposition to the motion (see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d 851, 853 [1985]).