New York lacks long-arm jurisdiction over an Illinois resident who invested in a New York-based oil-and-gas-drilling venture and later failed to pay a promissory note, an appeals court ruled.
While defendant Bruce Mau of Glenview, Illinois and other investors had an agreement with a New York-based corporation to act as their agent, a panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, said the agreement did not give the investors a right to control the corporation’s activities, thus providing no basis for long-arm jurisdiction.
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