DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff Nationwide Property Casualty, the insurer of the subject apartment building owned by Stella Troianos and Evagelos Troianos, commenced this subrogation action seeking recovery of insurance benefits it paid them for property damage that occurred to the apartment as the result of a fire that started in the defendant tenant's apartment on April 14, 1997.
The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The defendant failed to sustain his burden in the first instance of establishing his entitlement to judgment as a matter of law ( see Winegrad v. New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 N.Y.2d 851, 853). This burden cannot be satisfied merely by pointing out gaps in the plaintiff's case, as the defendant did here ( see Katz v. Pro Form Fitness, 3 A.D.3d 474; Kucera v. Waldbaums Supermarkets, 304 A.D.2d 531, 532; Dalton v. Educational Testing Serv., 294 A.D.2d 462, 463). Since the defendant failed to satisfy his burden as the party moving for summary judgment, it is unnecessary to analyze the sufficiency of the plaintiff's opposition ( see Winegrad v. New York Univ. Med. Ctr., supra).
PRUDENTI, P.J., SMITH, GOLDSTEIN and CRANE, JJ., concur.