Legal Opinion
Millennium Import, LLC v. Reed Smith LLP
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 23, 2009Published
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton A. Tingling, J.), entered July 14, 2008, which granted third-party defendants’ motion to dismiss the third-party action for lack of personal jurisdiction, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion denied.
While third-party defendants were retained in California by a non-New York plaintiff with respect to a California action, in conducting their representation of plaintiff they had contacts with this state of sufficient quantity and quality to confer jurisdiction over them (see CPLR 302 [a] [1]; Fischbarg v Doucet, 9 NY3d 375,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Fischbarg v. DoucetNew York Court of Appeals · 2007
- Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. v. Montana Board of InvestmentsNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
- LaMarca v. Pak-Mor Manufacturing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 2000
- Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. v. Montana Board of InvestmentsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
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