Fischbarg v. Doucet

Sullivan and Catterson, JJ., dissent in a memorandum by Sullivan, J., as follows:

This appeal presents the issue of whether defendants’ telephone calls, e-mails and faxes from California to New York to plaintiff, a New York attorney, limited to plaintiffs retention and representation of defendants in an action pending against them in Oregon, were sufficient to confer long-arm jurisdiction in New York. Since the weight of authority holds that such contacts are insufficient to confer jurisdiction over defendants, who never appeared in New York with respect to plaintiffs retention or…