National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provide that service of process upon an individual may be made “by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to an agent authorized by appointment ... to receive service of process.” 1 The petitioner is a corporation with *313its principal place of business in New York. It sued the respondents, residents of Michigan, in a New York federal court, claiming that the respondents had defaulted under a farm equipment lease. The only question now before us is whether the person upon whom the summons and complaint were served was “an agent authorized by…