Wojdag v. Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that New York law governed where payment was to be rendered in New York and New York was locus of repudiation
• holding that New York law governed where payment was to be rendered in New York and New York was locus of repudiation
• issuing bank liable for breach by directing reimbursement bank not to pay beneficiary under letter of credit
• Ugandan bank opened and later unilaterally attempted to cancel irrevocable letter of credit with New York bank
• “In order to maintain [New York’s] pre-eminent financial position, it is important that the justified expectations of the parties to the contract be protected”
• “[Wjhere there is a conflict between our public policy and application of comity, our own sense of justice and equity as embodied in our public policy must prevail.”

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