Opinion
May 11, 1987
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Gowan, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs; the depositions shall proceed at a time and place to be fixed by written notice of not less than 30 days, to be given by the defendant, or at such other time and place as the parties may agree.
A motion for a protective order (CPLR 3101 [a]) is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court (Matter of U.S. Pioneer Elecs. Corp. [Nikko Elec. Corp.], 47 N.Y.2d 914) and, on this record, we find no basis for disturbing the trial court's denial of the motion. The nonresident plaintiffs chose to invoke the jurisdiction of the New York courts (Spatz v. Wide World Travel Serv., 70 A.D.2d 835), and their motion for a protective order was supported solely by an attorney's affirmation containing only conclusory allegations of hardship (Carberry v. Bonilla, 65 A.D.2d 613; see also, Santamaria v. Walt Disney World, 51 A.D.2d 959; Abrams v. Vaughan Bushnell Mfg. Co., 37 A.D.2d 833, 834). Bracken, J.P., Brown, Rubin and Spatt, JJ., concur.