Section 408. Summons; service outside county to bring in certain additional parties
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A summons may be served in any part of the county or any adjoining county, in such manner as would confer jurisdiction on supreme court in a like instance, upon: (a) a third-party defendant as set forth in CPLR § 1007; (b) a person not a party against whom a counterclaim is asserted pursuant to CPLR § 3019(a); (c) a person not a party against whom a cross-claim is asserted pursuant to CPLR § 3019(b); (d) a claimant whom a defendant stakeholder seeks to bring into the action pursuant to CPLR § 1006(b); and (e) a person whom the court has ordered joined as a party pursuant to CPLR § 1001.