Whyenlee Indus. Ltd. v. Superior Court of San Mateo Cnty.

Whyenlee Industries Ltd. (Whyenlee), a defendant below, petitions for a writ of mandate directing the trial court to grant its motion to quash service of a summons.1 Because plaintiffs used an agent to serve a summons on Whyenlee in Hong Kong *842without first making a request to the Hong Kong government's Central Authority, Whyenlee now argues this attempt at service of process was ineffective under the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters ( Nov. 15, 1965, 20 U.S.T. 361, T.I.A.S. No. 6638 ) ("Hague Service Convention" or…