| HBK Master Fund L.P. v Troika Dialog USA, Inc. |
| 2011 NY Slip Op 05569 [85 AD3d 665] |
| June 28, 2011 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| HBK Master Fund L.P. et al., Respondents, v TroikaDialog USA, Inc., et al., Appellants. VR Global Partners, L.P., Respondent, v Troika DialogUSA, Inc., et al., Appellants. |
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Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles E. Ramos, J.), entered December 2,2010, which denied defendants' motions to dismiss the complaints without prejudice to renewafter completion of jurisdictional discovery, and order, same court and Justice, entered January12, 2011, which granted plaintiff VR Global Partners, L.P.'s motion to compel additionaljurisdictional discovery, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiffs made a "sufficient start" in demonstrating that the Russian defendants were doingbusiness in New York through their direct or indirect subsidiaries to warrant further discovery onthe issue of personal jurisdiction, including whether the parents exercised control over thesubsidiaries and are therefore subject to New York's long-arm jurisdiction (see Peterson vSpartan Indus., 33 NY2d 463, 467 [1974]; Edelman v Taittinger, S.A., 298 AD2d301, 302 [2002]).
VR Global's second discovery requests were tailored to elicit information related to thejurisdictional and forum non [*2]conveniens issues raised bydefendants.
The other issues raised by appellants are not ripe for review at this time.Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Freedman, Manzanet-Daniels and RomÁn, JJ.