Opinion
October 11, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (O'Donoghue, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The plaintiff, a South Korean company, demonstrated that it would be expensive and time-consuming for its president to travel to New York for a deposition before trial and then again for the trial (see, Oneto v. Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corp., 65 A.D.2d 520, 521; Zilken v. Leader, 23 A.D.2d 644; Ascona Cie., Anstalt v Horn, 32 A.D.2d 755). Accordingly, the court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in granting the plaintiff a protective order (see, CPLR 3103 [a]; Boylin v. Eagle Telephonics, 130 A.D.2d 538). Sullivan, J.P., Rosenblatt, Altman, Hart and Friedmann, JJ., concur.