WILLIAMS v. BEEMILLER, INC.

No. 25.

33 N.Y.3d 523 (2019)

130 N.E.3d 833

106 N.Y.S.3d 237

2019 NY Slip Op 03656

DANIEL WILLIAMS et al., Appellants, v. BEEMILLER, INC., Doing Business as HI-POINT, et al., Defendants, and CHARLES BROWN, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided May 9, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Washington, D.C. ( Jonathan E. Lowy of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), and Connors LLP, Buffalo ( Terrence M. Connors and James W. Grable, Jr. of counsel), for appellants.

Scott L. Braum & Associates, Ltd, Dayton, Ohio ( Scott L. Braum of the Ohio bar, admitted pro hac vice, and Timothy R. Rudd of the Ohio bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), and Barclay Damon LLP, Rochester ( John P. Gaughan , Sanjeev Devabhakthuni and Arianna E. Kwaitkowski of counsel), for respondent.

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York City ( Michael J. Dell , Jonathan M. Wagner and Marjorie E. Sheldon of counsel), and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, New York City (Eric Tirschwell and Molly Thomas-Jensen of counsel), for Everytown for Gun Safety, amicus curiae.

Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C., Washington, D.C. ( Robert S. Peck of counsel), for American Association for Justice, amicus curiae.


OPINION OF THE COURT

This case involves the propriety of New York's exercise of long-arm jurisdiction over defendant Charles Brown, an Ohio firearm merchant who sold a gun to an Ohio resident in Ohio which was subsequently resold on the black market and used in a shooting...

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