Order unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum:
Special Term properly dismissed the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction (CPLR 3211 [a] [8]). Plaintiffs, through their agent the Niagara County Sheriff, did not effect substituted service under CPLR 308 (4) because, at the time service was attempted, the statute required that the summons be mailed to a defendant's "last known residence" (cf., L 1987, ch 115, § 1). Here the summons was...
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