N.Y. Judiciary Law § 190-a: When domestic or foreign corporation or joint-stock association deemed resident

§ 190-a. When domestic or foreign corporation or joint-stock

association deemed resident. For the purpose of determining jurisdiction

under section one hundred ninety, a domestic corporation or joint-stock

association is deemed a resident of a county in which its principal

place of business is established by or pursuant to a statute or by its

articles of association, or in which its principal place of business or

any part of its plant, shops, factories or offices is actually located,

or in the case of a railroad corporation, in which any portion of the

road operated by it is located, and a foreign corporation is to be

deemed a resident of a county if it maintains any plant, store, office,

warehouse or other facility for doing business within such county; and

personal service of a paper by which an action or special proceeding is

commenced, made within the county, as prescribed in the civil practice

law and rules, is sufficient service thereof upon a domestic corporation

wherever it is located.