Order affirmed without costs.
Memorandum:
Supreme Court properly dismissed the complaint for lack of personal and subject matter jurisdiction. "[S]ervice of process without first * * * filing the initiatory papers is a nullity, the action * * * never having been properly commenced" (Matter of Gershel v Porr,
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