Kahn Lucas Lancaster, Inc. v. Lark International Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that insignificant \courtesy calls\ were not \essential to the continuance or development of\ a business relationship and thus did not confer jurisdiction
• declining to exercise jurisdiction over a Hong Kong clothing-supply company, despite its extensive use of telephone, facsimile and mail communications in negotiating with the plaintiff
• New York arbitration clause is insufficient basis for jurisdiction over suit even between the parties to the contract containing the clause until the plaintiff indicates a desire to arbitrate the suit
• “The rationale of this rule, however, means that this Court has jurisdiction over Lark only in support of arbitration.”
• New York arbitration clause is insufficient basis for jurisdiction over suit even between the parties to the contract containing the clause until the plaintiff indicates a desire to arbitrate the suit

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