No. 23-184

Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al.

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2023-08-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship
Latest Conference: 2023-10-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the "arising from " prong of the New York Long Arm Statute by (i) in some circumstances, applying a standard based on a graduated spectrum marked by degrees of relatedness, defined by an " articulable nexus, " on one end of the spectrum, and by a "substantial relationship " toward the other end of the spectrum, (ii) in other circumstances, collapsing those two phrases — " articulable nexus " and "substantially related " — into one standard, thereby making the phrases synonymous when, by their plain meanings, they are not synonymous, and (iii) in still other circumstances , using a wide variety of other non-synonymous phrases to define the relatedness standard required for the " arising from " prong of the New York Long Arm Statute, yielding an indefinite and imprecise set of standards in violation of the Due Process Clause s of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment s of the U.S. CONSTITUTION .

Whether the New York Long -Arm Statute necessarily must be coextensive with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. CONSTITUTION to guarantee the same due proc ess rights to New York citizens as those due process rights afforded to citizens of other co -equal States within the United States .

Whether the standard for the "interest-ofjustice " inquiry required by 28 U.S.C. §1631, as now conducted, is inconsistently interpreted and applied across the Circuits , yielding inconsistent and unpredictable results and leading to justice -defeating technicalities that undermine (i) precedent of the Supreme Court of the United States, including Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman , 369 U.S. 463 (1962) , and its progeny and (ii) the legislative intent of 28 U.S.C. §1631.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm Statute

Docket Entries

2023-10-30
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-24
2023-10-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2023.
2023-09-27
2023-08-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 27, 2023)
2023-06-08
Application (22A1061) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until August 24, 2023.
2023-06-02
Application (22A1061) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 25, 2023 to August 24, 2023, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Karen M. Suber
Amos Nathanael JonesAmos Jones Law Firm, Petitioner
VVP Services, LLC, Vision Venture Partners, LLC, Amit Raizada, Eleven Stones, LP, Stratton Sclavos and Prometheus Ventures, LLC
Paul Joseph BattistaVenable LLP, Respondent
Theresa M. B. Van VlietVenable LLP, Respondent