Hodom v. Stearns

Special Term granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint upon a finding that ‘ ‘ The contacts here are insufficient to sustain the jurisdiction” of the court. In so doing the court failed to consider (as have both parties in this court) certain legal principles that lead us to a conclusion contrary to that reached by Special Term.

CPLR 302, so far as here material, provides that “ a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over any nondomiciliary * * * who in person or through an agent: 1. transacts any business within the state ”. In Millner Co. v. Noudar, LDA (24 A D 2d 326, 328) it…