I'm representing myself, so it was only the trip to NYC, filing fees, and hiring a processor. The processor could not get this guy, so we filed a notice saying he'd attempted 3 times. I suspect this guy has avoided process servers before, but not sure.
Yes, the googling aspect doesn't help too much. Interestingly, having to remember back to 2008, this same situation happened with someone else they'd contracted. This particular contractor was in tennessee, and was owed ... much less than me. He blogged about it by name, and the NYC guy apparently (per the TN guy's story) went ballistic threatening to sue and such, and said he would pay when the post was taken down. So... it was taken down. Then never paid. The TN guy eventually gave up through these bullying tactics. I'm not going to give up.
It's so far in the past now that, while $9k would be great, I don't need it, and won't settle for half, nor will I settle for any conditions about not blogging about it.
Yes, the googling aspect doesn't help too much. Interestingly, having to remember back to 2008, this same situation happened with someone else they'd contracted. This particular contractor was in tennessee, and was owed ... much less than me. He blogged about it by name, and the NYC guy apparently (per the TN guy's story) went ballistic threatening to sue and such, and said he would pay when the post was taken down. So... it was taken down. Then never paid. The TN guy eventually gave up through these bullying tactics. I'm not going to give up.
It's so far in the past now that, while $9k would be great, I don't need it, and won't settle for half, nor will I settle for any conditions about not blogging about it.