Orix Credit Alliance, Inc. v. LeGallo

This is an action by plaintiff Orix Credit Alliance, Inc., a New York corporation, to enforce two default judgments in the total amount of $12,520.82 which were entered against the defendant by the Supreme Court of New York, County of New York.

The plaintiff, a finance lessor of business equipment, instituted suit in New York to recover for the defendant’s breach of a written lease of a facsimile machine. Jurisdiction in the New York court was based on a forum selection clause in the equipment lease.2

The defendant answered in the present action that the New York court did not have…