Platt Corp. v. Platt

Defendant Blumberg resides in Florida and was served with process in that State in this New York action. Jurisdiction is asserted under the long-arm statute (CPLB 302) and was sustained at the Special Term and at the Appellate Division in decisions which preceded Feathers v. McLucas (15 N Y 2d 443).

Defendant was a director of plaintiff corporation and the action is laid in tort for a failure to attend directors’ meetings in New York and in neglecting to perform in New York any of his duties as director, resulting, it is asserted, in loss to the corporation. ■

Instead of attending directors’…