LTD Trading Enterprises v. Vignatelli

— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Greenfield, J.), entered December 4, 1990, which, inter alia, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (8) and granted plaintiff’s cross-motion for expedient service pursuant to CPLR 308 (5), unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reversing that part of the order which authorized expedient service on defendant International Diffusion Company, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

The IAS court could not direct expedient service as to the corporate defendant, International Diffusion Company, as…