Hill v. Coates

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered September 16, 2009, dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

New York law was properly applied, once it was determined that the contacts most significant to this dispute took place here (see Zurich Ins. Co. v Shearson Lehman Hutton, 84 NY2d 309, 317 [1994]). In particular, the court correctly gave greatest weight to the fact that the most valuable assets of the subject trust are located in New York, and many of those assets are managed here. The fact that the alleged oral agreement was…