Hadjioannou v. Avramides

Memorandum. The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Plaintiff seeks alternative relief—preferably an order compelling defendants to submit the dispute between them to arbitration, or, if not that, then a judicial resolution of such dispute and money damages. While there is no doubt as to the sufficiency of the attachment as a predicate for jurisdiction quasi in rem with respect to the claim for money damages, it is not clear whether such an attachment would be a sufficient jurisdictional basis to support a special proceeding to compel arbitration.

In the present case we do not…