MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 245 Park Member LLC brought this petition to confirm an arbitration award dated April 30, 2022 in the arbitration captioned 245 Park Member LLC v. HNA Group (International) Company Limited, JAMS Ref. No. 5425000065, ECF No. 1-1, Ex. E (the “Award”), in the amount of $185,412,763.60.1 This case, which was originally filed in state court, has been removed to this Court. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 9 U.S.C. §203 because this action falls under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 21 U.S.T. 2517, codified at 9 U.S.C. §201 et seq. (the “New York Convention”). The New York Convention applies to this case because the Award is a “nondomestic” arbitral award — that is, an award that was made in the United States and that involves an entity that is not a United States citizen. See Beijing Shougang Mining Inv. Co., Ltd. v. Mongolia, 11 F.4th 144, 159 & n.14 (2d Cir. 2021); CBF Indústria de Gusa S/A v. AMCI Holdings, Inc., 850 F.3d 58, 73 (2d Cir. 2017); 9 U.S.C. §202.2 The Court also has subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1332(a)(2) because the petitioner is a citizen of Delaware and New York, the respondent is a citizen of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, and the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Together with this Memorandum Opinion and Order, the Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order granting the petitioner’s motion for a pre-judgment order of attachment of the respondent’s assets and an order requiring the respondent to provide the petitioner 14 days’ advance notice of the sale of any assets in excess of $1 million in which the respondent has a direct or indirect interest (the “Attachment Decision”). In the Attachment Decision, the Court concluded that the petitioner was likely to succeed on the merits of its claim to confirm the Award. The petitioner’s petition to confirm the Award and the respondent’s motion to vacate the Award are now fully briefed. For the reasons explained below and for the reasons explained in the Attachment Decision, the petitioner’s petition to confirm the Award is granted and the respondent’s motion to vacate the Award is denied. I. In May 2017, the respondent’s parent company, HNA Group Company Ltd. (“HNA Group”), purchased the property at 245 Park Avenue in New York City (the “Property”). Petition, ECF No. 1-1
