667 N.Y.S.2d 743 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1998
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), entered September 8, 1997, which denied defendant’s motion to vacate the New York filing of a Louisiana judgment holding defendant in contempt and directing a Louisiana sheriff to execute certain documents in defendant’s stead that are purportedly necessary to effectuate dissolution of the subject Panamanian corporation under the laws of Panama and that authorize defendant to liquidate all of the subject corporation’s accounts, and which granted plaintiff’s cross motion to enforce such judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
There is no merit to defendant’s argument that the trial level Louisiana court, through a strained exercise of its contempt power, did indirectly what it had no subject matter jurisdiction to do directly, namely, dissolve the subject Panamanian corporation, and that the Louisiana judgment in question is therefore not entitled to full faith and credit. Under the prior Louisiana appellate court order (de Nunez v Bartels, 684 So 2d 1008 [La], cert denied 689 So 2d 1379, 1380 [La]), which was the determinative factor on the prior appeal before this Court (241 AD2d 414), he and plaintiff were directed “to
