Regents of the University of California v. Golf Marketing, LLC

Opinion

Under appropriate circumstances, General Statutes § 52-607 1 authorizes a foreign judgment creditor to seek the enforcement of a judgment in this state even if that judgment was entered by default in the foreign state. In this case, the judgment debtors were, at one time, represented by counsel who filed a general denial on their behalf, in the foreign state, without challenging that court’s personal or subject matter jurisdiction. Suing in this state to enforce the subsequent default judgment, the judgment creditor filed a motion for summary judgment, which the trial court granted…