Portalp International SAS v. Zuloaga

BLACK, Judge.

Portalp International SAS challenges the trial court’s order denying its motion to quash service of process, asserting that Daniel Zuloaga’s attempt to serve it - in France via Federal Express is invalid under the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad- of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters article 10(a), November 15, 1965, 20 U.S:T. 361, 658 U.N.T.S. 163 (Hague Convention). Portalp International argues that by the plain meaning of the text of article 10(a), the Hague Convention only permits the mailing of judicial documents after process has been…