CIBC Mellon Trust Co. v. Mora Hotel Corp. N.V.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Saxe, J.
This appeal requires this Court to consider what circumstances are sufficient to grant recognition and enforcement of a money judgment issued by an English court, where the defendants are Netherlands Antilles corporations doing business in New York that maintained no presence in England and appeared only for the purpose of contesting personal jurisdiction.
FACTS
The legal claims that form the basis for the judgments at issue here relate to the financial collapse of Castor Holdings Ltd., a Canadian real estate and financial investment company that declared bankruptcy…
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