AROUH v. BUDGET LEASING INC (2009)

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J.), entered May 2, 2008, which granted defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendant's negotiation of the potential purchase of an automobile via email and telephone, which was initiated by plaintiff after viewing the car on defendant's website, is insufficient to constitute the “transaction” of business within New York (see Granat v. Bochner, 268 A.D.2d 365, 702 N.Y.S.2d 262 [2000] ), and, since the car was to be picked up in Texas, there was no contract to “supply goods or services in the state” (CPLR 302[a] [1] ).   Defendant's website, which described available cars and featured a link for email contact but did not permit a customer to purchase a car, was not a projection of defendant into the State (see Haber v. Studium, Inc., 22 Misc.3d 1129(A), 2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 50368(U), 2009 WL 565185, *4-5 [2009] ).