New York Court of Appeals

Walter Kramer, Doing Business as Walter Kramer Leather Co. v. Ludwig Vogl

February 17, 196617 N.Y.2d 27

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the fraud action for lack of personal jurisdiction over foreign defendants. The court held that the defendants neither committed a tortious act in New York nor engaged in any business transaction within the state sufficient to satisfy CPLR 302(a).