Aybar v. Aybar

Decision: 2021.10.07

Argument: 2021.09.01 vid. tr.

Whether the Appellate Division improperly ignored this Court’s ruling in Bagdon v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 217 N.Y. 432 (1916), and the United State Supreme Court’s ruling in Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 308 U.S. 165 (1939), by holding that a foreign corporation’s voluntary registration to do business in New York and its designation of New York’s Secretary of State as its agent for the service of process was insufficient as a consent to general jurisdiction in New York.

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