A worker who lost part of an arm to a commercial pasta-making machine cannot sue under New York Business Law because the Italian manufacturer did not do sufficient business in the state to give the worker personal jurisdiction over the company, a federal judge ruled.
Northern District Judge Lawrence Kahn held in Bouchard v. La Parmigiana S.R.L., 5:15-cv-0865, that the Parma, Italy-based manufacturer’s revenues in New York were only 0.08 percent of its total revenues from 2010 to 2015, or well below the amount that courts have found to represent a “substantial” portion of earnings qualifying a company for personal jurisdiction under New York’s CPLR §302(a)(3)(i).
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