Holding that defendant exporter's visits to New York to conduct general marketing research did not "bear a substantial relationship" to products liability action arising from purchase of defendant's product in New York because "[w]hile these visits certainly may be characterized as `purposeful' . . . the occurrence of these visits serves merely to establish [the defendant exporter's] transitory physical presence within the State."
Holding that Section 302 did not confer personal jurisdiction over defendant where "the only possible connection between the claimed conversion and any injury or foreseeable consequence in New York is the fact that [plaintiff] is incorporated and maintains offices there"
Holding that the foreseeability prong of Section 302 was met where the defendant, an out-of-state doctor, "concededly" had been "aware that decedent, a New York resident, was receiving treatment from New York State primary physicians based, at least in part on his recommendations" and had "contacted decedent's physicians directly, by mail and by telephone, concerning the treatment she was to receive in New York"
305 A.D.2d 199 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003) Cited 110 times
Holding that there was no personal jurisdiction under New York's long-arm statute over a non-New York-domiciliary defendant that negligently injured a New York-domiciliary plaintiff outside of New York, even where the defendant solicited the plaintiff's business in New York
Finding that the Court had personal jurisdiction over a defendant in Pennsylvania "in light of the number, nature, and timing of all of the contacts involved, including the numerous telephone, fax, e-mail, and other written communications with the plaintiff in New York that [defendant] initiated subsequent to his initial involvement in the project, as well as the manner in which [defendant] employed his decidedly passive web site for commercial access"
34 A.D.3d 433 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006) Cited 70 times
Holding in case involving sale of Florida property that "defendants' acts of faxing the executed contracts to New York and of making a few telephone calls do not qualify as purposeful acts constituting the transacting of business"
Holding that phone calls and emails to offices in New York concerning the out of state shopping centers at issue were not enough to submit the out of state defendants to personal jurisdiction
55 A.D.3d 793 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008) Cited 48 times
In Lang v Wycoff Hgts. Med. Ctr. (55 AD3d 793, 794 [2nd Dept 2008]), the Court stated that where a defendant moves to dismiss a complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (8) on the ground of lack of personal jurisdiction, "a plaintiff 'need only make a prima facie showing' that such jurisdiction exists."
135 A.D.2d 682 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987) Cited 89 times
Holding that there was no personal jurisdiction over a Connecticut hospital even though "defendant hospital's physicians are licensed to practice in both New York and Connecticut and . . . a sizeable portion of its patients reside in New York"
N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 302 Cited 4,377 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding that service may be made "to a person of suitable age and discretion at the actual place of business, dwelling place or usual place of abode of the person to be served and by ... mailing the summons to the person to be served at his or her last known residence"