Coelho v. Grafe Auction Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered on or about July 28, 2014, which denied defendants’ motion to dismiss pursuant to CPLR 327, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Contrary to defendants’ contention, this is not “one of the relatively uncommon [cases] in which dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds is required as a matter of law” (Mashreqbank PSC v Ahmed Hamad Al Gosaibi & Bros. Co., 23 NY3d 129, 138 [2014]). Rather, it is a standard case where “[t]he application of . . . forum non conveniens is a matter of discretion to be exercised by the trial…