Aguanno v. Kostopoulos

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton Tingling, J.), entered July 18, 2003, which granted third-party defendant’s motion for change of venue to Nassau County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The only connection with the initial venue was the designation by the foreign corporate defendant (the owner of the vehicle), in an application for authority to do business in New York, filed with the Department of State in July 1998, that the principal corporate office would be located in New York County (see Business Corporation Law § 1304 [a] [5]). By contrast, all of the individual parties…