Estok v. Fords Foundry Co.

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• holding that district court did not abuse its discretion in denying jurisdictional discovery in a case raising similar issues to this case
• emphasizing that “not every conceivable connection to a New York transaction is substantial enough to confer jurisdiction”
• noting that plaintiffs-appellants concede “that BDL, as the central bank of Lebanon, is an agency or instrumentality of the Lebanese state”
• describing the uses of a correspondent bank account that support jurisdiction under New York’s long-arm statute
• “[P]roof of one transaction in New York [may be] sufficient to invoke jurisdiction, even though the defendant never enters New York.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).