Legal Opinion
Ehrenfeld v. Bin Mahfouz
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 20, 2007PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CIPARICK, J.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has certified to us the question of whether CPLR 302 (a) (1) confers personal jurisdiction over a person “(1) who sued a New York resident in a non-U.S. jurisdiction; and (2) whose contacts with New York stemmed from the foreign lawsuit and whose success in the foreign suit resulted in acts that must be performed by the subject of the suit in New York” (489 F3d 542, 545 [2007]). Because these contacts do not constitute the transaction of business in this state, we conclude that CPLR 302 (a) (1) does not…
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