After a judge threatened him with a default judgment, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz yesterday sent a lawyer to answer Jay-Z’s $5 million-plus trademark-infringement suit, which claims the player ripped off the name of the rap mogul’s famed 40/40 Club.

And lawyer Philip Touitou told the judge that Ortiz wants to settle the suit, offering to stop calling the club he and his sister opened in the Dominican Republic “Forty Forty” and to pull down a Web site promoting the nightclub, fortyforty.net.

Yankee fan Jay-Z’s West 25th Street club is named for the milestone of hitting 40 homers and stealing 40 bases.