Watary Services Ltd. v. Law Kin Wah

Full title: WATARY SERVICES LIMITED et al., Respondents, v. LAW KIN WAH, Appellant

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Feb 19, 1998

247 A.D.2d 281 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

668 N.Y.S.2d 458

Opinion

February 19, 1998

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.).

The Hong Kong judgment is conclusive (CPLR 5302, 5303 N.Y.C.P.L.R.), and must be enforced absent a showing of one of the grounds for nonrecognition specified in CPLR 5304 (see, Matter of Fickling v. Fickling, 210 A.D.2d 223). The grounds urged by defendant — that New York is an inconvenient forum and that necessary parties have not been joined in the New York action — do not fall within any of the grounds specified.

Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Wallach, Rubin, Williams and Tom, JJ.