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refusing to recognize non-statutory defenses to recognition of foreign judgment
Summary of this case from Thomas Agnes Carvel Foundation v. CarvelOpinion
February 19, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.).
The Hong Kong judgment is conclusive (CPLR 5302, 5303 N.Y.C.P.L.R.), and must be enforced absent a showing of one of the grounds for nonrecognition specified in CPLR 5304 (see, Matter of Fickling v. Fickling, 210 A.D.2d 223). The grounds urged by defendant — that New York is an inconvenient forum and that necessary parties have not been joined in the New York action — do not fall within any of the grounds specified.
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Wallach, Rubin, Williams and Tom, JJ.