Kat House Productions, LLC v. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), entered April 13, 2009, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

When a nonresident sues in New York’s courts on a cause of action accruing outside the state, our “borrowing statute” (CPLR 202) requires that the cause of action be timely under the limitations periods of both New York and the jurisdiction where the claim arose (see Global Fin. Corp. v Triarc Corp., 93 NY2d 525, 528 [1999]). Generally, a tort action accrues “at the time and in the place of the injury,” and “[w]hen an…