N.Y. Surrogate's Court Procedure Act § 210: Jurisdictional predicate 1

§ 210. Jurisdictional predicate

1. Traditional bases. The court shall exercise jurisdiction over

persons and property as heretofore or hereafter permitted by law.

2. Additional bases.

(a) The court may exercise personal jurisdiction over any

non-domiciliary, or his fiduciary, as to any matter within the subject

matter jurisdiction of the court arising from any act or omission of the

non-domiciliary within the state, either in person or through an agent

and the court may exercise personal jurisdiction over any

non-domiciliary, or his fiduciary, as to any matter arising from any act

or omission of the non-domiciliary without the state affecting the real

property in this state which was in the name of the domiciliary decedent

of an estate or personal property which was on deposit in this state in

a savings bank, savings and loan institution, commercial bank, lending

institution or a brokerage account, stocks, bonds or other marketable

securities registered in the name of the domiciliary decedent or with

another within one year of the date of death of the domiciliary

decedent.

(b) The receipt and acceptance of any property paid or distributed out

of and as part of the administration of an estate subject to the

jurisdiction of the court, other than the payment of taxes under article

26 of the tax law to the commissioner of taxation and finance, shall

constitute a submission by such recipient to the jurisdiction of the

court as to any matter concerning the payment or distribution, including

proceedings for the recovery thereof.