Parks v. Steinbrenner

dents. Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Silbowitz, J.), entered September 18, 1984, which denied defendants’ motion for an order granting summary judgment on the ground that the court lacked in personam jurisdiction, unanimously modified, on the law, to hold that service of process pursuant to CPLR 308 (2) was proper, and, as so modified, affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiff Dallas Parks, a former major league baseball umpire, commenced this action for defamation against defendants New York Yankees, Inc., New York Yankees Partnership (Yankees), and George Steinbrenner, general partner of the…