Calzaturificio Giuseppe Garbuio S. A. S. v. Dartmouth Outdoor Sports, Inc.

MacMAHON, District Judge.

This is a diversity action for damages of $72,854.24, brought by an Italian partnership manufacturing ski boots against a New Hampshire corporation, for goods sold and delivered under a distributorship contract. Defendant is a foreign corporation not subject to in personam jurisdiction in New York. Plaintiff, therefore, attempted to establish jurisdiction quasi-in rem by attaching certain escrow monies held in New York by Beconta, Inc., a corporation which succeeded defendant as plaintiff’s United States distributor. The monies represent sums payable by Beconta to…