Vazquez v. Travis

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Canfield, J.), entered August 13, 1998 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition for lack of personal jurisdiction.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding principally challenging a determination denying him parole release status. Supreme Court dismissed the proceeding on the ground of lack of personal jurisdiction and we affirm. While it is true that procedural requirements for obtaining jurisdiction may be relaxed in cases where “imprison*691…