Hotel 71 Mezz Lender LLC v. Falor

When a plaintiffs right to a money judgment against a defendant appears to be clear, and grounds for a prejudgment attachment of assets owned by the defendant are similarly self-evident, if means exist by which those assets may be treated as located within this state so as to be available for attachment, the response of a court considering a challenge to such an attachment should not be to bend over backwards to protect such assets from the plaintiffs reach.

The position advanced in this writing, that service on a proper garnishee while that individual is in New York—even temporarily—is enough…