Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Altman

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered February 5, 1993, which denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint on the grounds of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Forum selection clauses are prima facie valid and will not be set aside except for fraud or overreaching or if enforcement would be so unreasonable and unjust as to make a trial in the selected forum "so gravely difficult and inconvenient that the challenging party would, for all practical purposes, be deprived of his or her day in court” (British…