In Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Blog this week, Cynthia O’Donoghue breaks down a Michigan state court decision earlier this year where the judge permitted service via Facebook message.
O’Donoghue tells us that in this case, the foreign defendant, a website operator, did not have a valid registered address listed on their website. The plaintiffs filed a motion for substituted service and demonstrated to the judge that the email address listed on the defendant’s domain registration was accepting emails and that this email address was listed as the contact information on the website’s Facebook account. Service was deemed complete by the court when the plaintiffs filed a return of service that indicated both the email and Facebook message had been sent, O’Donoghue says.
