Case Name: Connie JOHNSON, Plaintiff, Antonio PROCTOR, Wanda Rivera, Marisha White, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Navka, LLC, Navika Capital Group, LLC, Naveen C. Shah, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-10-22
Citations: 620 F. App'x 890
Docket Number: No. 15-12165
Parties: Connie JOHNSON, Plaintiff, Antonio PROCTOR, Wanda Rivera, Marisha White, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Navka, LLC, Navika Capital Group, LLC, Naveen C. Shah, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before HULL, ROSENBAUM and , BLACK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 620
Pages: 890–891

Head Matter:
Connie JOHNSON, Plaintiff, Antonio PROCTOR, Wanda Rivera, Marisha White, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Navka, LLC, Navika Capital Group, LLC, Naveen C. Shah, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 15-12165
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Oct. 22, 2015.
Howard Lynn Steele, Jr., Shreedhar Rajnikant Patel, Steele Law Group, PLLC, Houston, TX, S. Wesley Woolf, S. Wesley Woolf, PC, Savannah, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Michael James Sheppeard, Ballon Stoll Bader & Nadler, PC, New York, NY, Wade W. Herring, II, Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn, PC, Savannah, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before HULL, ROSENBAUM and , BLACK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Plaintiffs Antonio Proctor, Wanda Rivera, and Marisha White appeal the district court's dismissal'without prejudice of their complaint for failure to serve the defendants with process within 120 days after the date the complaint was filed as required by Rule 4(m), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiffs argue that the district court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint without prejudice and by fading to consider whether the statute of limitations would bar Plaintiffs from refiling. After review, we affirm.
For the first 87 days of the 120-day service period, Plaintiffs appear to have made no effort at service. With one month remaining, Plaintiffs asked counsel for the defendants to accept service on the defendants' behalf. Upon receiving a prompt refusal, Plaintiffs submitted a service waiver request under Rule 4(d), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Three weeks after the 120-day service period lapsed, Plaintiffs sought an extension of time, which the district court granted. Five days after the extended deadline and over sixty days after the original deadline, Plaintiffs served two defendants. Later, Plaintiffs served the final defendant. On the defendants' motion, the district court dismissed the complaint without prejudice.
We cannot say that the district court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint. In explaining their delay, Plaintiffs failed to show good cause rather than negligence, See Lepone-Dempsey, 476 F.3d at 1281-82, and the district court had already granted them one extension of time. The district court also clearly considered whether the statute of limitations or any other circumstances merited an extension of time to serve the defendants. See id. at 1282 ("Although the running of the statute of limitations, which barred the plaintiffs from refiling their claims, does not require that the district court extend time for service of process under Rule 4(m), it was incumbent upon the district court to at least consider this factor."). Contrary to Plaintiffs' argument, the district court need not have examined whether the statute of limitations had in fact run. See id.
AFFIRMED.
. We review for abuse of discretion a district court's dismissal without prejudice under Rule 4(m), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Lepone-Dempsey v. Carroll Cty. Comm'rs, 476 F.3d 1277, 1280 (11th Cir.2007).
. Given Plaintiffs' representations that they sent Rule 4(d) requests in late October and early November 2014, the defendants' deadline to respond would have been well after the original 120-day service period lapsed. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(d)(1)(F) (requiring a plaintiff to give the defendant at least 30 days to respond to a waiver of service request).