Under New Jersey case law, which the parties agree controls, the question whether a defendant owes a duty to a plaintiff in tort turns on numerous factors, including the foreseeability of the risk, the parties' relationship (which in this context necessarily entails defendants' observation of existing conditions and the actual performance of the work undertaken by the workers at the site), and the extent to which defendants had the opportunity and capacity to avoid the risk...
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