Landauer Limited v. Joe Monani Fish Co.

*654Plaintiff failed to carry its burden of demonstrating, by a preponderance of the evidence, that service of papers in the English action was properly made upon defendant, a New York corporation, in accordance with CPLR 311 (a) (1) (see Forrester v Luisa, 52 AD3d 324, 324 [1st Dept 2008]). Plaintiffs process servers testified that upon arriving at the building referred to in the affidavits of service and not locating defendant’s name in the directory, they were directed by an individual who was mopping the floor to a particular office said to belong to defendant. Although the door to that…