Today we revisit the case of the day from October 28, 2011, Health Science Distributors Co. v. Usher-Sparks (M.D. Fla. 2012). Last time around, the judge held that Health Science had not shown that it had made adequate service of process on the individual defendants, Robert Usher-Sparks and Trevor Taylor, on on the institutional defendants, Wellsprings Trading, Ltd., Wellsprings Ltd., and Sarati International, Inc. Health Science gave service of process another try, this time with some more success as to the individuals, but not as to Wellsprings. Health Science hired a process server to personally serve the documents on Usher-Sparks and Taylor in England (not in Guernsey, which raised issues in the prior post). The judge correctly held that such service is valid under…
Tagged: Guernsey, Hague Service Convention, UK