Paar v. Stubbs

OPINION (For Official Publication)

THORNE, Judge:

¶ 1 Clifford Stubbs appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to dismiss for insufficient service of process and its subsequent ruling nullifying Stubbs’s lien on property owned by George and Carlena Paar (the Paars).

BACKGROUND

¶2 Stubbs filed a lien against property owned by the Paars, claiming that George Paar owed Stubbs several million dollars due to Mr. Paar’s use of Stubbs’s copywritten and trademarked name without authority. After learning of the lien, the Paars filed a petition to nullify it as wrongful. Pursuant to Utah Code section…