Bensusan Restaurant Corporation v. Richard B. King, Individually and Doing Business as the Blue Note

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• holding that an exercise of jurisdiction pursuant to section 302(a)(2
• holding that, because the New York long-arm statute, N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 302(a)(2
• explaining that the purpose of the interstate commerce requirement was to exclude non-domiciliaries from jurisdiction where their business operations are of a local character
• explaining that section 302(a)(2) “reaches only tortious acts performed by a defendant who was physically present in New York when [it] performed the wrongful act”
• dismissing on personal jurisdiction grounds because the plaintiff had not alleged that defendant derived substantial revenues from interstate commerce
• collecting cases and concluding, “to subject non-residents to New York jurisdiction under § 302(a)(2) the defendant must commit the tort while he or she is physically in New York State”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).