Chicoine v Koch, 2018 NY Slip Op 03825 [2d Dept. 2018]
A court of record generally has the power "to issue a subpoena requiring the attendance of a person found in the state to testify in a cause pending in that court" (Judiciary Law § 2-b[1]). "Where the attendance at trial of a party or person within the party's control can be compelled by a trial subpoena, that subpoena may be served by delivery in accordance with [CPLR 2103(b)] to the party's attorney of record" (CPLR 2303-a). Here, the trial subpoena was properly served upon the defendant's attorneys pursuant to CPLR 2303-a and 2103(b)(2). Contrary to the defendant's contention, because he is a party to this action, over whom personal jurisdiction had been obtained, he is "found in the state" within the meaning of Judiciary Law § 2-b(1) (see Coutts Bank [Switzerland] v Anatian, 275 AD2d 609; cf. Zeeck v Melina Taxi Co., 177 AD2d 692, 694; see generally Matter of Standard Fruit & S. S. Co. v Waterfront Commn. of N.Y. Harbor, 43 NY2d 11, 15).
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