Richardson v. Lopez

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fernando Tapia, J.), entered on or about October 25, 2016, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted plaintiff’s motion for a default judgment against the Lopez defendants (defendants) and denied defendants’ cross motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction or for a traverse hearing, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for the court to conduct a traverse hearing on the issue of service of process.

Plaintiff made a prima facie showing that his process server exercised due…