Seetransport Wiking Trader Schiffahrtsgesellschaft Mbh & Co., Kommanditgesellschaft v. Navimpex Centrala Navala and Uzinexportimport

JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This appeal concerns the enforceability under New York Law of a ruling by a French court made with respect to a French arbitration award. Under the New York Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act, which is Article 53 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, see N.Y.Civ.Prac.L. & R. 5301-09 (McKinney 1978), New York law permits enforcement of a “foreign country judgment which is final, conclusive and enforceable where rendered_” N.Y.Civ.Prac.L. & R. 5302 (McKinney 1978). The precise issue in this case is whether a ruling of the Paris Court of Appeals conferring…