Syntex Corporation owns Syntex USA which owns Syntex Laboratories. However, when the issue of jurisdiction is to be decided on the pleadings and without discovery, the plaintiff has only to make out a prima facie case of jurisdiction. Furthermore, where no evidentiary hearing has been held, all pleadings and affidavits must be construed most favorably to the plaintiffs. To establish the requirement that the non- domiciliary committed a tort outside New York, the question to be decided is not actual liability, but whether the defendant has committed any act which gives rise to a tort claim. Coordinating recall efforts.
Corporation provides the only personnel used for regulatory compliance.
Participating as a member of the Quality Assurance Advisory Committee which made the decision to recall the product. For a critical part of the life of the product, Corporation provided internal auditing services to Laboratories. Plaintiffs also assert that Corporation's negligent were a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries. Plaintiff tried to reach defendant with the long-arm statute because defendant was the registered owner of the trademark. The Court held that to allow long arm jurisdiction over a parent corporation, the parent's control over the subsidiary must be so complete that the subsidiary is merely a department, instrumentality, arm, of the parent.