Opinion
January 31, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.).
Plaintiff, a New York resident injured in defendants' casino in Atlantic City, asserts jurisdiction over the defendant foreign corporations claiming defendants were engaged in a continuous and systematic course of doing business here so as to warrant a finding of "presence" in this jurisdiction. (Frummer v Hilton Hotels Intl., 19 N.Y.2d 533, rearg denied 20 N.Y.2d 758, cert denied 389 U.S. 923.) However, we have previously held that the mere listing of a telephone number and address in a local directory, by itself, is an insufficient basis upon which to predicate a finding of "presence" pursuant to CPLR 301. (Sullivan v Firth Foster Co., 199 App. Div. 99, 100-101.) In light of the foregoing, we reject plaintiff's arguments on appeal.
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Carro, Rosenberger, Ellerin and Kupferman, JJ.