Trinity Investment Trust L. L. C. v. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barry Cozier, J.), entered February 24, 2000, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint on the ground of forum non conveniens, conditioned upon defendants’ consent to jurisdiction in the courts of Japan, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Japan is clearly the more appropriate forum to litigate this action in which plaintiff alleges that defendants breached a commitment to provide mortgage financing that would have enabled plaintiff to purchase an office building in Tokyo, Japan. It is particularly pertinent that plaintiff is an Illinois…