NAF Holdings, LLC v. Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.

STRINE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has certified the following question of law arising out of án appeal from a decision issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York:

Where the plaintiff has secured a contractual commitment of its contracting counterparty, the defendant, to render a benefit to a third party, and the eounter- . party breaches, that commitment, may the promisee-plaintiff bring a direct suit against the promisor for damages suffered by the plaintiff resulting from the promisor’s breach, notwithstanding…