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LONGINES-WITTNAUER v. BARNES & REINECKE

15 N.Y.2d 443 (1965)

Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co., Inc., Respondent, v. Barnes & Reinecke, Incorporated, Appellant. John Feathers et al., Respondents, v. Elizabeth McLucas, as Administratrix of The Estate of Robert J. McLucas, Deceased, et al., Defendants, and Darby Corporation, Appellant. Frederick F. Singer, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem of Michael Singer, an Infant, Respondent, v. Alan Walker, Doing Business as Walker's Minerals, Defendant, and Estwing Manufacturing Co., Inc., Also Known as Estwing Manufacturing Company, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 27, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester Bordeau for appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Henry P. Poole for respondent in the first above-entitled action.

William J. Pentak and Ernest P. Lyons for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

William H. Ivimey for respondents in the second above-entitled action.

Abraham Burstein and Nathan E. Zelby for appellant in the third above-entitled action.

Harry L. Koenig for respondent in the third above-entitled action.

Walter Herzfeld, Cecelia H. Goetz and Bernard J. Wald for Chemie Gruenenthal G. m.b. H., amicus curiæ.

Judges DYE, BURKE, SCILEPPI and BERGAN concur with Judge FULD; Judge VAN VOORHIS and Chief Judge DESMOND concur in separate opinions.

FULD, J.

In the three cases under review — one sounding in contract and two in tort — we are called upon to decide whether the courts of this State acquired personal jurisdiction, under our "long-arm" statute (CPLR 302), over foreign corporations not "doing business" here in the traditional sense. Since there are several questions of law common to all three cases, we discuss such questions generally...

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