Legal Opinion
State Bank of India v. Taj Lanka Hotels Ltd.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 4, 1999PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme .Court, New York County (Charles Ramos, J.), entered March 25, 1998, which denied the motion of defendant Indian Hotels Company to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction or on the basis of forum non conveniens, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court properly found that defendant Indian Hotels had consented to the jurisdiction of New York’s courts since the guarantees executed by Indian Hotels, in addition to being payable in New York, clearly incorporate the terms of the underlying note which, in turn and with equal clarity, incorporates all of the terms of…
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