Cooperatieve Centrals Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. v. Royal Bank of Canada

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Ramos, J.), entered February 5, 2003, which denied the motion of defendant bank (hereinafter defendant) for dismissal of the complaint on grounds, alternatively, of forum non conveniens, failure to state a cause of action or documentary evidence, and order, same court and Justice, entered March 24, 2003, which denied defendant’s motion for renewal, unanimously affirmed, with one bill of costs.

The subject transaction, despite its international scope, has a nexus with New York sufficient to warrant the conclusion that the denial of that branch of…