03-07-2007, 10:00 AM
Quote:In a case of apparent first impression, a Staten Island, N.Y., judge has ruled that a single eBay transaction between a New York buyer and an out-of-state seller is insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction in a breach of contract action.
One sale, "without more, does not constitute sufficient purposeful availment to satisfy the minimum contacts necessary to justify summoning across state lines, to a New York court, the seller of an allegedly non-conforming good," Richmond County Civil Court Judge Philip S. Straniere held in Sayeedi v. Walser, 10610/06...
full article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1173175402839