N.Y. Partnership Law § 80: When partnership or business name may be continued

§ 80. When partnership or business name may be continued. The use of

a partnership or a business name may be continued in either of the

following cases:

1. Where the business of any firm or partnership in this state, having

business relations with foreign countries or which has transacted

business in this state or in any other state or territory of the United

States continues to be conducted by some or any of the partners, their

or any of their assignees, appointees or successors in interest.

2. Where any partnership shall hereafter be formed under the laws of

this state it may use the firm or corporate name of any general or

limited partnership or of any corporation, domestic or foreign, which

may theretofore have carried on its business within this state, where

said general or limited partnership or corporation has discontinued or

shall be about to discontinue its business within the state, and where a

majority of the partners, general or special, in either of such last

mentioned copartnerships or of the survivors thereof shall be members of

the new copartnership, or where a majority of the members of such

copartnership theretofore existing or of the surviving members thereof,

or where stockholders holding a majority of the stock of such

corporation shall consent in writing to the use of such firm or

corporate name by such new copartnership; or

3. Where any resident of this state dies, who at the time of his death

and for at least five years immediately prior thereto, conducted and

carried on in his sole name, any business in this state, or who at the

time of his death, so conducted and carried on any business having

relation with other states or foreign countries, the right to use the

name of such person, for the purpose of continuing and carrying on such

business, shall survive and pass and be disposed of and accounted for as

a part of the personal estate of such deceased person, and such business

may be continued and carried on under such name by any person who comes

into the legal possession thereof.