Matter of Smith v New York County Dist. Attorney's Off.
2013 NY Slip Op 01910 [104 AD3d 559]
March 21, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 24, 2013


In the Matter of Stephen M. Smith, Appellant,
v
New York County District Attorney's Office, Respondent.

[*1] Shapiro, Arato & Isserles, New York (Jeremy Licht of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Richard Nahas of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Larry Stephen, J.), entered on or about October 10, 2012, which directed respondent-appellant to appear as a witness to testify in a criminal proceeding in an Indiana court, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the petition denied and the special proceeding brought pursuant to CPL 640.10 dismissed.

The New York District Attorney's Office concedes that its failure to serve respondent as directed by its order to show cause, which required service of the papers supporting the order, resulted in a lack of personal jurisdiction over respondent (see CPLR 403 [d]; 2214 [d]). Accordingly, denial of the petition and dismissal of the proceeding is warranted (see Matter of Ruine v Hines, 57 AD3d 369 [1st Dept 2008]; Matter of Feldman v Feldman, 54 AD3d 372, 373 [2d Dept 2008]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Saxe, Moskowitz and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.