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I scanned my machine using Nmap and found an open port (5431) is used by the "park-agent" service.

What is the "part-agent" service used for?

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A service may use any port number to recieve packets. By convention the IANA registers and publishes port numbers. However a rogue process could use any port number without being the service assigned to use the port. – this.josh Sep 1 '11 at 6:40
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The description "Park Agent" will likely just come from the nmap services file, it doens't necessarily mean that that's what's running on the system.

What sort of host is it that you saw it running on? One suggestion I've seen for that port is UPnP

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If its your own system, you could probably run netstat -b (on windows) or netstat -p (on linux) on the system its running on to identify the process- netstat tends to use behaviour to guess what sort of software is running, and what OS, and that description sounds rather generic.

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