Gillespie v. Inter-Continental Hotels Corp.

I respectfully dissent, inasmuch as I conclude that Supreme Court properly denied the pre-answer motion of defendant Grand Hotel Inter-Continental Paris SNC (Hotel) seeking to dismiss the amended complaint against it. As the majority states, “ ‘Business Corporation Law § 307 establishes a mandatory sequence and progression of service completion options to acquire jurisdiction over a foreign corporation not authorized to do business in New York’ ” (VanNorden v Mann Edge Tool Co., 77 AD3d 1157, 1158 [2010], quoting Stewart v Volkswagen of Am., 81 NY2d 203, 207 [1993]; see Business Corporation…