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Forum Selection Clause Requiring All Enforcement Actions to be Brought in Surrogate’s Court Enforced 

A forum-selection clause in a stipulation required any action necessary to enforce the terms of the stipulation be brought in Surrogate’s Court, Queens County.  When a proceeding to discharge a mortgage, which was related to the stipulation, was brought in Supreme Court, Queens County, the court dismissed the proceeding with leave to renew in Surrogate’s Court pursuant to the forum-selection clause. In affirming, the Second Department wrote:

 “Although once disfavored by the courts, it is now recognized that parties to a contract may freely select a forum which will resolve any disputes over the interpretation or performance of the contract” … . “A contractual forum selection clause is prima facie valid and enforceable unless it is shown by the challenging party to be unreasonable, unjust, in contravention of public policy, invalid due to fraud or overreaching, or it is shown that a trial in the selected forum would be so gravely difficult that the challenging party would, for all practical purposes, be deprived of its day in court” … . Matter of Chiantella v Lucy Chiantella Revocable Trust of 2002, 2013 NY Slip Op 02575, 2012-01935, Index No 1853/11, 2nd Dept 4-17-13

 

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