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Business Connections to New York Insufficient to Confer Jurisdiction Under CPLR 301 or 302, Criteria Explained

The Second Department determined the defendants-respondents were properly granted summary judgment dismissing the complaint based upon the court’s lack of jurisdiction over a foreign corporation and individual non-domiciliary (insufficient business connection with New York). The court explained the business-related jurisdiction requirements under CPLR 301 and 302:

“Jurisdiction under CPLR 301 may be acquired over a foreign corporation only if that corporation does business here not occasionally or casually, but with a fair measure of permanence and continuity’ so as to warrant a finding of its presence’ in this jurisdiction” … . Furthermore, “[a]n individual cannot be subject to jurisdiction under CPLR 301 unless he [or she] is doing business in New York as an individual rather than on behalf of a corporation” … . Here, the respondents were not doing business in this State … .

Pursuant to CPLR 302(a)(1), “a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over any non-domiciliary . . . who in person or through an agent . . . transacts any business within the state or contracts anywhere to supply goods or services in the state” (CPLR 302[a][1]). “Whether a defendant has transacted business within New York is determined under the totality of the circumstances, and rests on whether the defendant, by some act or acts, has purposefully avail[ed] itself of the privilege of conducting activities within [New York]”‘ … . “Purposeful activities are those with which a defendant, through volitional acts, avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum State, thus invoking the benefits and protections of its laws'” … . “CPLR 302(a)(1) jurisdiction is proper even though the defendant never enters New York, so long as the defendant’s activities here were purposeful and there is a substantial relationship between the transaction and the claim asserted'” … .

Here, the respondents established, prima facie, that they did not conduct any purposeful activities in New York which bore a substantial relationship to the subject matter of this action, so as to avail themselves of the benefits and protections of this State’s laws. Okeke v Momah, 2015 NY Slip Op 07252, 2nd Dept 10-7-15

 

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