On review of submissions pursuant to rule 500.2 (b) of the Rule of the Court of Appeals (22 N.Y.CRR 500.2 [b]), order affirmed, with costs. It cannot be said, as a matter of law, that the Appellate Division abused its discretion in granting defendants' motion to dismiss the action pursuant to CPLR 3012 (subd [b]). Indeed, as we held in Barasch v Micucci ( 49 N.Y.2d 594, 600-601), it would have been an abuse of discretion to have failed to dismiss.
Concur: Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER.