In Quartey v. AB Stars Productions, S.A., 260 AD2d 39 (1st Dept 1999) the First Department ruled that an out-of-state boxing promoter, unlicensed in New York, could recover promoting fees for bouts taking place in New York, if it contracted with a properly licensed New York promoter in good faith as an out-of-state agent for a foreign boxer, and not in an attempt to circumvent the New York State licensing requirements (Quartey, 260 AD2d at 43). As to the fights outside of New York, the Court of Appeals ruled that New York Athletic Commission's licensing regulation does not extend to foreign contracts between out-of-state parties merely because the contracts contain a New York "choice of law" clause (260 AD2d at 43-44).