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title: 'House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017836)'
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IN RE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 771 Cite as 349 F.Supp.2d 765 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) tirely on factual allegations, and would specific facts warranting the inference that prevail even if defendants made contrary the defendant was a member of the con- arguments. Fed. Rules Civ.Proc.Rule spiracy, and show that the defendant's co- 12(b)(2), 28 U.S.C.A. conspirator committed a tort in New York. N.Y.McKinney's CPLR 302(a)(2). 35. Federal Courts @m96 In resolving motions to dismiss for 41. Courts en 12(2.20) lack of personal jurisdiction, the district To warrant the inference that an out- court reads the complaints and affidavits of-state defendant was a member of a con- in a light most favorable to the plaintiffs. spiracy, as required for a court to exercise Fed. Rules Civ.Proc. Rule 12(b)(2), 28 personal jurisdiction under New York's U.S.C.A. long-arm statute on the basis of the acts of 36. Federal Courts @96 co-conspirators in New York, plaintiffs In resolving a motion to dismiss for must show that: (1) the defendant had an lack of personal jurisdiction, the district awareness of the effects in New York of its court will not accept legally conclusory activity; (2) the activity of the co-conspira- assertions or draw argumentative infer- tors in New York was to the benefit of the out-of-state conspirators; and (3) the co- ences. Fed.Rules Civ.Proc.Rule 12(b)(2), 28 U.S.C.A. conspirators acting in New York acted at the direction or under the control or at the 37. Federal Courts Em 417 request of or on behalf of the out-of-state A federal court sitting in diversity ex- defendant. N.Y.MeKinney's CPLR ercises personal jurisdiction over a foreign 302(a)(2). defendant to the same extent as courts of general jurisdiction of the state in which it 42. Federal Courts @94, 96 sits. Fed.Rules Civ.Proc.Rule 4(k)(1)(A), Allegations by victims' survivors, that 28 U.S.C.A. various defendants, including Saudi Ara- bian Princes, conspired with al Qaeda ter- 38. Courts @ 12(2.20) rorists to perpetrate September 11, 2001 For New York's long-arm statute to attacks, failed to make prima facie showing provide a basis for personal jurisdiction in necessary to establish personal jurisdiction a civil conspiracy action, the plaintiffs are as to Antiterrorism Act (ATA) claims un- not required to establish the existence of a der New York's long-arm statute, absent formal agency relationship between the de- fendants and their putative co-conspira- could infer that defendants directed, con- tors. N.Y.McKinney's CPLR 302(a)(2). 39. Courts @ 12(2.20) The bland assertion of conspiracy is insufficient to establish personal jurisdic- tion under New York's long-arm statute. N.Y.McKinney's CPLR 302(a)(2). 40. Courts em 12(2.20) To establish personal jurisdiction on a conspiracy theory under New York's long- arm statute, the plaintiffs must make a prima facie showing of conspiracy, allege consent to those activities. 18 U.S.C.A. $ 2331 et seq.; N.Y.McKinney's CPLR 302(a)(2). 43. Constitutional Law 305(5) Federal Courts e 76.5 For jurisdiction to exist under the rule establishing personal jurisdiction in any district court for cases arising under HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017836