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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[825 NE2d 584, 792 NYS2d 369]
    Helen Reed et al., Respondents, v Gowanda Nursing Home et al., Defendants, and U-Haul International, Inc., et al., Appellants.
    Argued January 6, 2005;
    decided February 10, 2005
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Brown & Tarantino, LLP, Buffalo (Margaret K. Hey of counsel), for appellants.
    
      
      Brady & Swenson, Salamanca (Thomas C. Brady of counsel), for respondents.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question answered in the affirmative.

Business Corporation Law § 307 (c) (2) requires a party who has served papers by mail on an out-of-state defendant to file proof of service within 30 days after “receipt of the return receipt signed by the foreign corporation, or other official proof of delivery or of the original envelope mailed.” We are asked to decide whether an affidavit of compliance annexing a copy of the papers served—date and time stamped “Received” by out-of-state defendant U-Haul International, Inc.—is sufficient under the statute. In this case, there can be no doubt that plaintiff provided proof that defendant received the mailing shortly after it was sent by registered mail, return receipt requested, and that plaintiffs received no return receipt. Under the particular circumstances presented here, we agree with the motion court and Appellate Division that the complaint should not be dismissed for want of proper service on defendant U-Haul.

Chief Judge Kaye and Judges G.B. Smith, Ciparick, Rosenblatt, Graffeo, Read and R.S. Smith concur in memorandum.

Order affirmed, etc.