Sandoval v. Abaco Club on Winding Bay

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• explaining that although “the existence of [a choice-of-law clause] is a ‘significant’ factor in a personal jurisdiction analysis[,] . . . the absence of one has no bearing on the issue of personal jurisdiction”
• finding no personal jurisdiction where the parties negotiated via communications to New York regarding a contract that would take place in the Bahamas
• finding no ongoing contractual relationship existed between a New York-based corporation and a foreign defendant to install an irrigation system, the physical labor for which was performed between December 2003 and October 2004
• finding no ongoing contractual relationship existed between a New York-based corporation and a foreign defendant to install an irrigation system, the physical labor for which was performed between December 2003 and October 2004
• “Multiple district courts in this Circuit have held . . . that the mere existence of a contract with a New York corporation is not sufficient to constitute the transaction of business under § 302(a)(1) of the CPLR.”
• “Multiple district courts in this Circuit have held . . . that ‘the mere existence of a contract with a New York corporation is not sufficient to constitute the transaction of business under § 302(a)(1) of the CPLR.” (citation omitted)

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