Kennedy v. Yousaf

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), entered May 6, 2014, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiffs failed to establish that defendants transacted business in New York from which plaintiffs’ causes of action arise (see CPLR 302 [a] [1]). Plaintiffs’ own New York activities relating to their management agreement with defendants cannot be attributed to defendants (see Royalty Network, Inc. v Harris, 95 AD3d 775 [1st Dept 2012]). The fact that defendants negotiated the…