Infrared J and H surface photometry are carried out for nearby 12 galaxies whose distances have been accurately measured via HST Cepheid observations .
Using the total , isophotal , and surface-photometric aperture magnitudes we calibrate the infrared luminosity-line width relation ( IRTF ) .
It is found that IRTF changes its slope at \log W _ { 20 } ^ { c } \sim 2.45 in all the examined magnitude systems .
The apparent scatter of IRTF is not significantly reduced when surface photometric magnitudes are used instead of the conventionally used synthetic aperture magnitude H _ { -0.5 } .
It is also shown that the color ( I - H ) _ { T } of the nearby calibrator galaxies is redder by \sim 0.2 mag than the Coma cluster galaxies , but such a trend is not clearly visible for the Ursa Major mostly because of poor statistics .
The color offset of the Coma is analogous to that previously found in I _ { T } - H _ { -0.5 } .
From the present calibration of H -band IRTF , we obtain the distance to the Coma cluster to be m - M = 34.94 \pm 0.13 mag , where no account is taken of the I - H color problem .
Using the CMB-rest recession velocity of the Coma cluster we obtain H _ { 0 } = 73 \pm 4 km s ^ { -1 } Mpc ^ { -1 } .