United States Second Circuit

Situs is only one consideration determining choice of law, and New York's policy interests in regulating New York professionals, combined with evidence that the majority of contacts are with New York, provides New York with the more significant interest, even when the property in dispute is located in Connecticut.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/20/2001
• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:, Before MESKILL, PARKER, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Clarence S. Barasch (Lionel A. Barasch, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant A. Gary Fieger.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Callagy, Kelley Drye & Warren, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Pitney Bowes Credit Corporation, Pitney Bowes Real Estate Financing Corporation and PREFCO XXII Limited Partnership.