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PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF A FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, AS LISTED ON THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT BUSINESS, IS THE CONTROLLING LOCATION FOR VENUE PURPOSES.

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined that appellant’s motion for a change of venue should have been granted. Appellants demonstrated that the foreign limited liability company’s application for authority to conduct business in New York listed a principal office in New York County. Plaintiff brought the action in Queens County, alleging appellant’s principal place of business is in Queens County.  The principal office in New York County, pursuant to Limited Liability Company Law 102[s], was the controlling location for venue purposes:

Pursuant to CPLR 503(a), the venue of an action is properly placed in the county in which any of the parties resided at the time of commencement … . In support of their motion, the appellants established that QPS was a resident of New York County at the time of commencement by producing a certified copy of QPS’s application for authority to conduct business filed with the New York State Department of State, which listed New York as the county in which its principal office was located … . The plaintiff did not dispute the fact that the application for authority designated New York County as the location of QPS’s principal office, but claimed that QPS is a resident of Queens County because that is the location of its principal place of business. However, the sole residence of a foreign corporation or a foreign limited liability company for venue purposes is the county where its principal office is located as designated in its application for authority to conduct business filed with the New York State Department of State, regardless of where it transacts business or maintains its actual principal office or facility (see CPLR 503[c]…). Such office need not be a place where business activities are conducted by the limited liability company … . Carlton Group, Ltd. v Property Mkts. Group, Inc., 2015 NY Slip Op 09423, 2nd Dept 12-23-15

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