Moreover, “[t]he willful or contumacious character of a party’s conduct can be inferred from the party’s repeated failure to respond to demands or to comply with discovery orders, and the absence of a reasonable excuse for these failures, or by the failure to comply with court-ordered discovery over an extended period of time” (Nationstar Mtge., LLC v Jackson, 192 AD3d 813, 815 [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Henry… [read post]