This piece summarizes civil procedure decisions handed down by the New York Court of Appeals during its 2013-2014 term. Given our space limitations, we have addressed only a portion of the court’s holdings in this arena, with an emphasis on those points that are most relevant to everyday practice in The Empire State. Readers searching for a discussion of the other relevant opinions from the court during the 2013-2014 term will want to review the biannual supplements to Siegel, New York Practice (Patrick Connors ed., 5th ed., July 2014 Supplement; January 2015 Supplement [forthcoming]).

SCOTUS Personal Jurisdiction Decisions

Our focus in this space is the jurisprudence of the New York Court of Appeals, but we would be remiss if we did not mention two decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in January and February that significantly narrowed the scope of previously understood notions of personal jurisdiction. In Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746 (2014), the Supreme Court essentially declared that New York’s “doing business test,” employed by our courts for decades to measure whether a corporate defendant is subject to general jurisdiction in New York, does not comport with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Just six weeks after its blockbuster opinion in Daimler, the Supreme Court turned to the subject of specific jurisdiction in Walden v. Fiore, 134 S. Ct. 1115 (2014), a decision that will no doubt limit the application of CPLR 302 in New York actions based on longarm jurisdiction.

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