Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed and cross-appealed from, with one bill of costs to the plaintiff payable by the defendants C.D.E. Air Conditioning Co., Inc., and Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc.
During the course of a renovation project on the elevator system at the courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department, the plaintiff was injured when he slipped and fell on a wooden ramp placed on a staircase leading to the basement where the work was being performed. The ramp was wet with rain water. The City of New York contracted with Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc. (hereinafter Bovis), to perform construction management services for the project, and Bovis hired subcontractors. The City also contracted with C.D.E. Air Conditioning Co., Inc. (hereinafter CDE), to repair and renovate the air conditioning and heating system at the courthouse. CDE subcontracted with the third-party defendant, Blackstar Hi-Tech Metals, Inc. (hereinafter Blackstar), to perform demolition work. The plaintiff was an employee of Blackstar.
The Supreme Court properly denied those branches of CDE’s motion and Bovis’s cross motion (hereinafter collectively the defendants) which were for summary judgment dismissing the Labor Law § 241 (6) cause of action insofar as asserted against
The Supreme Court also properly denied that branch of Bovis’ cross motion which was for summary judgment on its cross claim for contractual and common-law indemnification against CDE and Blackstar. Neither CDE nor Blackstar was in privity with Bovis (see Fernandes v Equitable Life Assur. Socy. of U.S., 4 AD3d 214, 215 [2004]), and Bovis failed to establish prima facie that it was an agent of the City within the meaning of the indemnification clauses in CDE’s agreement with the City and Blackstar’s agreement with CDE (see Tonking v Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J., 3 NY3d 486, 489-490 [2004]). Bovis also failed to establish prima facie entitlement to common-law indemnification against either CDE or Blackstar (see Freeman v National Audubon Socy., 243 AD2d 608, 609 [1997]; cf. Chapel v Mitchell, 84 NY2d 345, 347-348 [1994]). Crane, J.P., Goldstein, Rivera and Lifson, JJ., concur.
