PER CURIAM.
Defendant, General Gas, Inc., a corporation operating a gas station, and its principal, defendant Malini Rao, appeal from the trial court order granting summary judgment to plaintiff, a gasoline supplier which commenced litigation to recover more than $600,000, representing forty-eight separate gasoline deliveries to defendants for which no payments were subsequently remitted. We affirm.
The undisputed facts upon which the motion judge granted summary judgment were as follows. Defendants accepted petroleum deliveries from plaintiff on forty-eight occasions. The deliveries were accompanied by forty-eight invoices. Defendants claim there was an agreement between the parties that plaintiff would provide the petroleum at market rates. However, no such agreement was ever reduced to writing. Moreover, defendants continued to accept deliveries and invoices for accounts payable from plaintiff without objection, despite being under no obligation to do so if there was an objection to the billings. Defendants sold the petroleum but failed to make any payment to plaintiff for the deliveries.
Plaintiff moved for summary judgment less than thirty days prior to the scheduled trial date, and the court initially entered an order granting the motion. The court later vacated the order after receiving defendants' cross-motion to file an amended counterclaim alleging fraud and opposition to the summary judgment motion. The court granted the motion to amend the complaint and denied plaintiff's summary judgment motion. The court concluded there were genuinely disputed issues of fact regarding the existence of an oral agreement.
Thereafter, plaintiff moved for reconsideration, which the court granted. The court once again granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, finding it was undisputed that the goods were sold to defendants and defendants accepted the goods but made no payments. The court additionally found that the sale of the gasoline was subject to the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.),
On appeal, defendants contend the motion judge erred in considering plaintiff's motion, which was untimely, and there were genuinely disputed issues of fact regarding whether plaintiff overcharged defendants for the fuel shipments, contrary to an oral agreement the parties reached that only "market rates" would be charged. We disagree.
Our review of a trial court order granting summary judgment is de novo, and we apply the same standard as the trial court in determining whether there are any genuinely disputed issues of material fact sufficient to warrant resolution by the trier of fact.
Addressing the timeliness of plaintiff's motion, we are in agreement that the motion was filed less than thirty days prior to trial, contrary to
Turning to the merits, there is no dispute that the transaction between the parties represents the sale of goods subject to the U.C.C.
Here, defendants presented no document evidencing the claimed agreement. Nor did defendants present any evidence of an oral agreement and performance consistent with any oral agreement. Rather, the undisputed evidence before the motion judge consisted of invoices detailing the quantity and price of gasoline provided in each delivery and defendants' acceptance of the deliveries, without objection each time. Moreover, defendants' acceptance of forty-eight separate deliveries evidenced their acknowledgement of their indebtedness to plaintiff for the unpaid invoices. The motion judge correctly found there were no disputed issues of fact in existence sufficient to defeat summary judgment. Plaintiff was therefore entitled to the grant of summary judgment and the entry of judgment in its favor as a matter of law.
Affirmed.