Ingraham v. Carroll
| Decision Date | 16 January 1997 |
| Parties | Richard H. INGRAHAM, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Alison S. Ingraham, Deceased, Appellant, v. James CARROLL et al., Defendants, and Frederick Loy, Respondent. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Beck, Salvi, Gewurz & Strauss (Leland Stuart Beck, of counsel), Garden City, for appellant.
Donohue, Sabo, Varley & Armstrong P.C. (R. Cris Puma, of counsel), Albany, for respondent.
Before MIKOLL, J.P., and CASEY, YESAWICH, SPAIN and CARPINELLO, JJ.
MIKOLL, Justice Presiding.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Canfield, J.), entered May 16, 1996 in Rensselaer County, which, inter alia, granted defendant Frederick Loy's cross motion to dismiss the complaint against him for lack of personal jurisdiction.
Plaintiff commenced this wrongful death action seeking to recover damages for the allegedly negligent medical treatment his wife, Alison S. Ingraham (hereinafter decedent), received from defendants. At issue on this appeal is whether Supreme Court properly dismissed the complaint against defendant Frederick Loy on the ground that personal jurisdiction over him had not been obtained. Loy, a physician, is a resident of Vermont. Although licensed to practice medicine in both New York and Vermont, his practice is limited solely to Vermont. It is not disputed that Loy never treated decedent in New York and that the only medical service he rendered to her occurred in Vermont. Decedent, a New York resident, was initially referred to Loy by defendant James Carroll, a physician employed by Community Health Plan (hereinafter CHP), a New York-based health maintenance organization. Although Loy admittedly saw CHP patients regularly on a referral basis, there is no evidence in the record that he ever actually contracted with CHP to provide such services. Instead, it appears that the referrals were made on an ad hoc basis. Loy does not own property in New York nor is it alleged that he maintained an office in New York. Given these facts, we agree with Supreme Court's conclusion that plaintiff failed to establish the necessary prerequisites to warrant exercising long-arm jurisdiction over Loy pursuant to CPLR 302.
Turning first to the question of whether Loy subjected himself to jurisdiction under CPLR 302(a)(3), we find that plaintiff failed to establish that Loy committed a tortious act outside of New York which caused injury to decedent inside the State. Plaintiff does not deny that the allegedly negligent treatment decedent received occurred solely in Vermont. As it has been stated, "[t]he situs of the injury is the location of the original event which caused the injury, not the...
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