Earle v. Valente
Decision Date | 03 February 2003 |
Parties | DAVID EARLE et al., Respondents,<BR>v.<BR>VINCENT VALENTE, Appellant, et al., Defendant. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that one bill of costs is awarded to the appellant.
The Supreme Court denied the motion of the defendant Vincent Valente to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against him based upon improper service of process and denied, in effect, as academic, the plaintiffs' cross motion for an extension of time within which to serve Valente pursuant to CPLR 306-b. We reverse the denial of Valente's motion and grant the plaintiffs' cross motion.
The plaintiffs failed to establish that the "due diligence" requirement of CPLR 308 (4) was met. The process server made three attempts to serve the defendant Vincent Valente on weekdays during normal business hours or when it could reasonably have been expected that he was in transit to or from work (see Gurevitch v Goodman, 269 AD2d 355, 356; Walker v Manning, 209 AD2d 691, 692; Gantman v Cohen, 209 AD2d 377, 378; Serrano v Pape, 188 AD2d 647; Magalios v Benjamin, 160 AD2d 773, 774). The process server made no attempt to determine Valente's business address and to effectuate personal service at that location pursuant to CPLR 308 (1) and (2) (see Gurevitch v Goodman, supra at 356; Moran v Harting, 212 AD2d 517, 518). Accordingly, under these circumstances, the attempted service of the summons and complaint pursuant to CPLR 308 (4) was defective as a matter of law (see Gurevitch v Goodman, supra at 356; Walker v Manning, supra at 692; Moran v Harting, supra at 518).
The plaintiffs' cross motion for an extension of time to serve the summons and complaint on Valente should be granted in the interest of justice (see Leader v Maroney, Ponzini & Spencer, 276 AD2d 194, affd 97 NY2d 95; Scarabaggio v Olympia & York Estates Co., 278 AD2d 476, affd sub nom. Leader v Maroney, Ponzini & Spencer, 97 NY2d 95). The extension afforded by CPLR 306-b is applicable where, as here, service is timely made within the 120-day period but is subsequently found to have been defective (see Citron v Schlossberg, 282 AD2d 642; Murphy v Hoppenstein, 279 AD2d 410; Gurevitch v Goodman, supra at 356; Salamon v Charney, 269 AD2d...
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