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SPCA v. AMERICAN COLLIE ASSN.

No. 6.

18 N.Y.3d 400 (2012)

963 N.E.2d 1226

940 N.Y.S.2d 525

2012 NY Slip Op 857

SPCA OF UPSTATE NEW YORK, INC., et al., Appellants, v. AMERICAN WORKING COLLIE ASSOCIATION et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided February 9, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanclift, Ludemann & McMorris, P.C., Glens Falls ( Martin J. McGuinness of counsel), for appellants.

Goldberg Segalla LLP, Albany ( Jonathan Bernstein of counsel), for respondents.

Judges CIPARICK, READ and JONES concur with Chief Judge LIPPMAN; Judge PIGOTT dissents in a separate opinion in which Judges GRAFFEO and SMITH concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge LIPPMAN.

The question presented in this defamation action is whether plaintiffs established personal jurisdiction over the out-of-state defendants under CPLR 302 (a) (1), New York's long-arm statute. We find that they did not.

Plaintiff SPCA of Upstate New York is a New York corporation and plaintiff Cathy Cloutier is its executive director. Defendant American Working...

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