Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 1, 2011 (D&R Global Selections, S.L. v. Bodega Olegario Falcón Piñeiro)

This dispute, which raises issues of long-arm jurisdiction, involves two Spanish businesses, neither of which is authorized to do business in New York or has offices, employees, telephone listings, or bank accounts in New York. It is undisputed that plaintiff, a limited liability company, and defendant, a Spanish winery, entered into an oral agreement in or about March 2005 in Spain.