71 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 251,689 times   279 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable
  2. Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno

    454 U.S. 235 (1981)   Cited 4,732 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding that potential change in law cannot, by itself, fend off dismissal under forum non conveniens absent showing that new law is "clearly inadequate or unsatisfactory"
  3. Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert

    330 U.S. 501 (1947)   Cited 5,598 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that private interest factors include the "availability of compulsory process for attendance of un-willing, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, witnesses"
  4. Edgar v. MITE Corp.

    457 U.S. 624 (1982)   Cited 768 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "matters peculiar to the relationships among or between the corporation and its current officers, directors, and shareholders" are a corporation's internal affairs
  5. Jazini ex rel. Jazini v. Nissan Motor Co.

    148 F.3d 181 (2d Cir. 1998)   Cited 698 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "conclusory non-fact-specific jurisdictional allegations" and "legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation" do not meet the burden of a prima facie showing of jurisdiction
  6. Parochial v. Board of Educ

    60 N.Y.2d 539 (N.Y. 1983)   Cited 824 times
    Holding that § 3813's notice of claim requirement "is not satisfied by presentment to any other individual or body"
  7. Islamic Republic v. Pahlavi

    62 N.Y.2d 474 (N.Y. 1984)   Cited 707 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Diverging from federal doctrine on whether alternative forum must be available to consider forum non conveniens claims
  8. Licci v. Lebanese Canadian Bank, SAL

    2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 7854 (N.Y. 2012)   Cited 260 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "a foreign bank's repeated use of a correspondent account in New York on behalf of a client ... show purposeful availment" sufficient to meet the transacting-business prong of New York's long-arm statute
  9. Longines-Wittnauer v. Barnes Reinecke

    15 N.Y.2d 443 (N.Y. 1965)   Cited 732 times
    Holding that minor activities, taken cumulatively, may meet statutory standard
  10. Kliebert v. McKoan

    228 A.D.2d 232 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)   Cited 279 times

    June 11, 1996 Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.). Although on a motion addressed to the sufficiency of a complaint, the facts pleaded are presumed to be true and accorded every favorable inference, nevertheless, allegations consisting of bare legal conclusions, as well as factual claims either inherently incredible or flatly contradicted by documentary evidence, are not entitled to such consideration ( Mark Hampton, Inc. v. Bergreen, 173 A.D.2d 220, lv denied 80 N.Y

  11. Section 362 - Automatic stay

    11 U.S.C. § 362   Cited 29,383 times   174 Legal Analyses
    Concluding that cause exists to lift the stay because no bankruptcy purpose would be served by keeping the stay in place
  12. Section 301 - Voluntary cases

    11 U.S.C. § 301   Cited 1,442 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Describing filing of petition
  13. Section 1504 - Commencement of ancillary case

    11 U.S.C. § 1504   Cited 55 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Indicating that “any case commenced under Chapter 15 is ‘ancillary’ to a foreign proceeding pending elsewhere”
  14. Section 600.11 - Additional rules relating to criminal appeals

    N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 22 § 600.11   Cited 95 times
    Providing that an appeal to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court is perfected when a party files a "note of issue" and an appellate brief