Matter of GATX Flightlease Aircraft Co. Ltd. v Airbus S.A.S.
2007 NY Slip Op 04359 [40 AD3d 445]
May 22, 2007
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 11, 2007


In the Matter of GATX Flightlease Aircraft Company Limited, Respondent, and Flightlease Holdings (Guernsey) Limited, Intervenor-Respondent,
v
Airbus S.A.S., Formerly Known as Airbus Industrie, Appellant.

—[*1] Clifford Chance US LLP, New York (Peter R. Chaffetz of counsel), for appellant.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, DC (Karl Rem�n Thompson of counsel), for GATX Flightlease Aircraft Company Limited, respondent.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York (George A. Zimmerman of counsel), for Flightlease Holdings (Guernsey) Limited, respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered January 9, 2007, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendant's motion for partial summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court correctly found that the issue of the collateral estoppel effect to be given a Cayman Islands judgment was governed by Cayman law (see e.g. Watts v Swiss Bank Corp., 27 NY2d 270, 275 [1970]; Weiss v La Suisse, Societe D'Assurances Sur La Vie, 293 F Supp 2d 397, 405 [SD NY 2003]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Williams, Gonzalez and Kavanagh, JJ. [See 2007 NY Slip Op 30646(U).]