New York Civil Practice Law & Rules Article 3 - JURISDICTION AND SERVICE, APPEARANCE AND CHOICE OF COURT

• 301 - Jurisdiction Over Persons, Property or Status.
  A court may exercise such jurisdiction over persons, property, or status as might have been exercised heretofore.
• 302 - Personal Jurisdiction by Acts of Non-Domiciliaries.
  (a) Acts which are the basis of jurisdiction. As to a cause of action arising from any of the acts enumerated in this section, a...
• 303 - Designation of Attorney As Agent for Service.
  The commencement of an action in the state by a person not subject to personal jurisdiction is a designation by him of his attorney appearing...
• 304 - Method of Commencing Action or Special Proceeding.
  (a) An action is commenced by filing a summons and complaint or summons with notice in accordance with rule twenty-one hundred two of this chapter....
• R305 - Summons; Supplemental Summons, Amendment.
  Rule 305. Summons; supplemental summons, amendment. (a) Summons; supplemental summons. A summons shall specify the basis of the venue designated and if based upon the...
• R306 - Proof of Service.
  Rule 306. Proof of service. (a) Generally. Proof of service shall specify the papers served, the person who was served and the date, time, address,...
• 306-a - Index Number in an Action or Proceeding Commenced in Supreme or County Court.
  (a) Upon filing the summons and complaint, summons with notice or petition in an action or proceeding commenced in supreme or county court with the...
• 306-b - Service of the Summons and Complaint, Summons With Notice, Third-Party Summons and Complaint, or Petition With a Notice of Petition or Order to Show Cause.
  Service of the summons and complaint, summons with notice, third-party summons and complaint, or petition with a notice of petition or order to show cause...
• 306-c - Notice of Commencement of Action for Personal Injuries by Recipient of Medical Assistance.
  In the case of an individual who has suffered personal injuries and has received medical assistance pursuant to titles eleven and eleven-D of article five...
• 307 - Personal Service Upon the State.
  1. Personal service upon the state shall be made by delivering the summons to an assistant attorney-general at an office of the attorney-general or to...
• 308 - Personal Service Upon a Natural Person.
  Personal service upon a natural person shall be made by any of the following methods: 1. by delivering the summons within the state to the...
• 309 - Personal Service Upon an Infant, Incompetent or Conservatee.
  (a) Upon an infant. Personal service upon an infant shall be made by personally serving the summons within the state upon a parent or any...
• 310 - Personal Service Upon a Partnership.
  (a) Personal service upon persons conducting a business as a partnership may be made by personally serving the summons upon any one of them. (b)...
• 310-a - Personal Service Upon a Limited Partnership.
  (a) Personal service upon any domestic or foreign limited partnership shall be made by delivering a copy personally to any managing or general agent or...
• 311 - Personal Service Upon a Corporation or Governmental Subdivision.
  (a) Personal service upon a corporation or governmental subdivision shall be made by delivering the summons as follows: 1. upon any domestic or foreign corporation,...
• 311-a - Personal Service on Limited Liability Companies.
  (a) Service of process on any domestic or foreign limited liability company shall be made by delivering a copy personally to (i) any member of...
• 312 - Personal Service Upon a Court, Board or Commission.
  Personal service upon a court consisting of three or more judges may be made by delivering the summons to any one of them. Personal service...
• 312-a - Personal Service by Mail.
  (a) Service. As an alternative to the methods of personal service authorized by section 307, 308, 310, 311 or 312 of this article, a summons...
• 313 - Service Without the State Giving Personal Jurisdiction.
  A person domiciled in the state or subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the state under section 301 or 302, or his executor...
• 314 - Service Without the State Not Giving Personal Jurisdiction in Certain Actions.
  Service may be made without the state by any person authorized by section 313 in the same manner as service is made within the state:...
• 315 - Service by Publication Authorized.
  The court, upon motion without notice, shall order service of a summons by publication in an action described in section 314 if service cannot be...
• R316 - Service by Publication.
  Rule 316. Service by publication. (a) Contents of order; form of publication; filing. An order for service of a summons by publication shall direct that...
• 317 - Defense by Person to Whom Summons Not Personally Delivered.
  A person served with a summons other than by personal delivery to him or to his agent for service designated under rule 318, within or...
• R318 - Designation of Agent for Service.
  Rule 318. Designation of agent for service. A person may be designated by a natural person, corporation or partnership as an agent for service in...
• R320 - Defendant's Appearance.
  Rule 320. Defendant's appearance. (a) Requirement of appearance. The defendant appears by serving an answer or a notice of appearance, or by making a motion...
• 321 - Attorneys.
  (a) Appearance in person or by attorney. A party, other than one specified in section 1201 of this chapter, may prosecute or defend a civil...
• R322 - Authority for Appearance of Attorney in Real Property Action.
  Rule 322. Authority for appearance of attorney in real property action. (a) Authority of plaintiff's attorney. Where the defendant in an action affecting real property...
• 325 - Grounds for Removal.
  (a) By supreme court for mistake in choice of court. Where a mistake was made in the choice of the court in which an action...
• R326 - Procedure on Removal.
  Rule 326. Procedure on removal. (a) Stay of proceedings. An order to stay proceedings for the purpose of moving for removal may be made by...
• R327 - Inconvenient Forum.
  Rule 327. Inconvenient forum. (a) When the court finds that in the interest of substantial justice the action should be heard in another forum, the...
• R328 - Assistance to Tribunals and Litigants Outside the State.
  Rule 328. Assistance to tribunals and litigants outside the state. (a) Pursuant to court order. Upon application by any interested person or in response to...

Last modified: February 3, 2019