Philip v. Monarch Knitting Machinery Corp.

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Carol E. Huff, J.), entered on July 18, 1990, which denied defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (8) to dismiss the complaint as against defendant Fukahara Industrial & Trading Company, Ltd., a Japanese corporation, for lack of personal jurisdiction and granted plaintiff’s cross motion to compel disclosure, is unanimously affirmed, with costs and disbursements.

Plaintiff Morris Philip, an inventor with a world-wide reputation in the knitting industry, brought this action in New York State for specific performance and monetary damages arising…