Stevenson-Misischia v L'Isola D'Oro SRL

Stevenson-Misischia v L'Isola D'Oro SRL 2009 NY Slip Op 05687 [64 AD3d 458] July 7, 2009 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Mary Stevenson-Misischia, Appellant,
v
L'Isola D'Oro SRL et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.

—[*1] Mary Stevenson-Misischia, appellant pro se.

Smith & Krantz, LLP, New York (Wayne R. Smith of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland G. DeGrasse, J.), entered August 7, 2007, which granted the motion of defendants L'Isola D'Oro SRL, Sud Pesca SPA and L'Isola D'Oro USA to dismiss the complaint against them for lack of personal jurisdiction, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Contrary to plaintiff's claim, personal jurisdiction was not obtained over defendant L'Isola D'Oro USA by service under Business Corporation Law § 307. The record does not support a finding that defendant Casamento was acting as a managing or general agent for this New Jersey corporation at the time he was served, or that he was ever authorized by appointment or by law to receive service on its behalf (see Low v Bayerische Motoren Werke, AG., 88 AD2d 504 [1982]).

The action was also properly dismissed against the Italian defendants, L'Isola D'Oro SRL and Sud Pesca SPA, for failure to show they had any business connections with New York or transacted any business here in any manner related to the allegedly tortious conduct (CPLR 301, 302; see Landoil Resources Corp. v Alexander & Alexander Servs., 77 NY2d 28 [1990]; McGowan v Smith, 52 NY2d 268 [1981]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Sweeny, Nardelli and Freedman, JJ.