59 A.D.2d 1007 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1977
Order unanimously modified, in accordance with memorandum and, as modified, affirmed, without costs. Memorandum: In this contract action the parties agreed that the Supreme Court of the State of New York has jurisdiction over all controversies arising under it, service of process to be made by registered mail. Special Term erred, therefore, in denying plaintiff’s motion to strike defendant’s affirmative defense that the court lacks jurisdiction of the nonresident defendant (National Rental v Szukhent, 375 US 311, 315-316; Gilbert v Burnstine, 255 NY 348). The contract provision limiting defendant buyer to the remedy of arbitration but not so limiting the plaintiff manufacturer-seller is void for lack of mutuality (see Lehigh Val. Inds. v Griebel, 49 AD2d