Shiuh Chu Lu v Lalchan
2004 NY Slip Op 01832 [5 AD3d 240]
March 18, 2004
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 26, 2004


Shiuh Chu Lu, Appellant,
v
Gary S. Lalchan, Respondent.

—Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered August 15, 2002, which denied plaintiff's motion for entry of a default judgment, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as academic.

The order denying plaintiff a default judgment for failure to submit proof of service was rendered academic by a subsequent order granting plaintiff's motion for an extension of time to serve and file the summons and complaint. If we were to address the propriety of the order, we would affirm, since, as the motion court noted in denying vacatur of said order, service by mail is not sufficient to obtain jurisdiction. Concur—Buckley, P.J., Tom, Sullivan, Ellerin and Williams, JJ.