ALBANY – A Lebanese bank’s use of a New York account for multimillion-dollar wire transfers establishes sufficient basis under the state’s long-arm statute for suing the bank in New York for Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel in 2006, the state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
The determination by the 6-0 court in Licci v. Lebanese Canadian Bank, 183, came in response to two certified questions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit seeking guidance from the state court on the reach of the long-arm statute, CPLR §302(a)(1). A federal judge in 2010 dismissed the lawsuit against the now-defunct bank, which was headquartered in Beirut, citing lack of jurisdiction.
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