Unicon Management Corp. v. Koppers Company
Decision Date | 07 February 1966 |
Citation | 250 F. Supp. 850 |
Parties | UNICON MANAGEMENT CORP., Plaintiff, v. KOPPERS COMPANY, Inc., Fletcher L. Byrom, Walter P. Arnold, H. A. Denny, R. G. Wilson, W. A. Anderson, Paul H. Titus and Harry W. Powell, Defendants. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Southern District of New York |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for plaintiff, Thomas R. Farrell, New York City, of counsel.
Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendants, William Piel, Jr., and Robert E. Barnett, New York City, of counsel.
Pursuant to an order of this court incorporated in its opinion dated December 7, 1965, 38 F.R.D. 474 (S.D.N.Y.1965), each party has served and submitted affidavits in support of its respective position with reference to the question of whether or not the individual defendants have committed a "tortious act" in the State of New York within the meaning of New York CPLR § 302(a) (2). The order was made because the court deemed the record then before it to be inadequate to decide that question.
The court finds that it lacks personal jurisdiction over the individual defendants for the reasons hereinafter set forth.
Plaintiff alleged in its complaint:
The affidavit of Thomas R. Farrell, plaintiff's attorney, submitted in opposition to the present motion, states:
On the contrary, plaintiff cannot by a "bland assertion" that...
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