Order unanimously reversed, with costs, and respondent's motion to compel arbitration denied on the ground of forum non conveniens.
Memorandum:
On appeal from an order which denied its application to stay arbitration and granted respondent's application to compel arbitration, petitioner asserts, as it did at Special Term, that New York is an inappropriate forum for these proceedings (see CPLR 327). We agree. The doctrine of forum non conveniens<...
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