MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Supreme Court properly dismissed the petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus. We agree with petitioner that he properly commenced this special proceeding by filing the notice of petition and petition with the clerk of the court ( see CPLR 304; Matter of Grant v. Senkowski, 95 N.Y.2d 605, 608-610), and thus the court erred in determining that the proceeding was not properly commenced because petitioner failed to serve respondents and the Attorney General with the order to show cause issued thereafter by the court. The court directed that the order to show cause, petition and supporting affidavit be served on respondents and the Attorney General by regular mail. Petitioner's failure to serve those documents as directed in the order to show cause, however, deprived the court of personal jurisdiction over the parties, and "this fatal jurisdictional defect requires dismissal of the proceeding" ( Matter of Bottom v. Murray, 278 A.D.2d 817; see 3211 [8]).