—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered May 20, 1998, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, denied defendant’s motion to vacate temporary restraining orders (TROs) dated August 6, 1996 and August 15, 1996, held in abeyance defendant’s motion for costs incurred in connection with the above said TROs, and granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment insofar as to direct judgment in plaintiffs’ favor as to liability on their third cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court properly determined that the presently asserted interests of plaintiffs-respondents, who sue as assignees of Anthony Sunseri’s interest in defendant partnership Macro Cellular Partners, are not identical to the interests of Anthony Sunseri asserted in a California action brought by Anthony Sunseri against Macro Cellular. The motion court, then, correctly concluded that the judgment in the California action dismissing Anthony Sunseri’s complaint with prejudice does not preclude on res judicata grounds the present plaintiffs from asserting their claims to certain distributions of partnership proceeds (see, Matter of Farmland Dairies v Barber,
The motion court properly denied defendant partnership relief with respect to the August 1996 temporary restraining orders, as superseded by the same court’s order dated March 5, 1997 and entered on or about March 7, 1997, since defendant partnership never sought any relief with respect to the March order in its motion for summary judgment. Moreover, defendant partnership is precluded from raising any issue with respect to the March 1997 order, since it failed to perfect its prior appeal therefrom (see, Matter of Ellsman,