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ABKCO IND v. LENNON

52 A.D.2d 435 (1976)

Abkco Industries, Inc., Respondent, v. John Lennon et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants . (Action No. 1.) Abkco Industries, Inc., Respondent, v. Apple Corps Ltd. et al., Appellants. (Action No. 2.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 8, 1976

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Freund of counsel (Peter F. Nadel, Robert W. Gottlieb and Stephen L. Ratner with him on the brief; Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen, attorneys), for respondent.

Owen McGivern of counsel (Benjamin Vinar, Robert L. Magielnicki and John W. Wall with him on the brief; Eastman & Eastman, attorneys, and Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine of counsel), for Paul McCartney, appellant.

Peter K. Leisure of counsel (Robert S. Lipton and George Kahale, III, with him on the brief; Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, attorneys), for Michael B. Boreham, appellant.

Richard W. Hulbert of counsel (Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, attorneys), for John Lennon and others, appellants.

Reavis & McGrath of counsel on the issue of in personam jurisdiction for Richard Starkey, appellant.

KUPFERMAN, J. P., MURPHY and LUPIANO, JJ., concur with NUNEZ, J.; SILVERMAN, J., dissents in part in an opinion as to defendant Starkey for lack of in personam jurisdiction.

NUNEZ, J.

In two actions (hereinafter referred to as the 1973 action and the 1974 action) by ABKCO Industries, Inc., a theatrical manager, against its former clients, the Beatles, and their related companies, appeals are taken from six orders. In 1969 plaintiff entered into a management contract in London, England with three of the Beatles (other than McCartney) and the Beatles group of companies. McCartney,...

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