Connection reset while running any soap request

While running a script calling multiple SOAP requests, the following errors pop up. Surprisingly no such errors pop up while running the SOAP requests on soapUI or while performing loadtests on soapUI.

2013-02-14 10:28:14,339 INFO  [log] 112233 1659304095
2013-02-14 10:28:14,339 INFO  [log] ProviderID: 1659304095 ; InstallID: 112233
2013-02-14 10:28:14,403 ERROR [WsdlSubmit] Exception in request: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
2013-02-14 10:28:14,403 ERROR [SoapUI] An error occured [Connection reset], see error log for details
2013-02-14 10:28:14,403 ERROR [errorlog] java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
 at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
 at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(Unknown Source)
 at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)
 at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
 at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readDataRecord(Unknown Source)
 at sun.security.ssl.AppInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:149)
 at org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer.fillBuffer(SocketInputBuffer.java:110)
 at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:264)
 at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultResponseParser.java:98)
 at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:252)
 at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:281)
 at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:247)
 at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:219)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.http.HttpClientSupport$SoapUIHttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpClientSupport.java:147)
 at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:125)
 at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:633)
 at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:454)
 at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
 at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:754)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.http.HttpClientSupport$Helper.execute(HttpClientSupport.java:236)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.http.HttpClientSupport.execute(HttpClientSupport.java:345)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.transports.http.HttpClientRequestTransport.sendRequest(HttpClientRequestTransport.java:242)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlSubmit.run(WsdlSubmit.java:123)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlSubmit.submitRequest(WsdlSubmit.java:76)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlRequest.submit(WsdlRequest.java:238)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.WsdlTestRequestStep.run(WsdlTestRequestStep.java:417)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestCaseRunner.runTestStep(AbstractTestCaseRunner.java:238)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.testcase.WsdlTestCaseRunner.runCurrentTestStep(WsdlTestCaseRunner.java:48)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestCaseRunner.internalRun(AbstractTestCaseRunner.java:147)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestCaseRunner.internalRun(AbstractTestCaseRunner.java:42)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestRunner.run(AbstractTestRunner.java:135)
 at com.eviware.loadui.components.soapui.SoapUISamplerComponent$SoapUITestCaseRunner.run(SoapUISamplerComponent.java:735)
 at com.eviware.loadui.components.soapui.SoapUISamplerComponent.sample(SoapUISamplerComponent.java:577)
 at com.eviware.loadui.impl.component.categories.RunnerBase.doSample(RunnerBase.java:507)
 at com.eviware.loadui.impl.component.categories.RunnerBase.access$700(RunnerBase.java:68)
 at com.eviware.loadui.impl.component.categories.RunnerBase$Worker.run(RunnerBase.java:774)
 at com.eviware.loadui.util.dispatch.CustomThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(CustomThreadPoolExecutor.java:198)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

The error occurs even when I try running the script once, using the 'Run once' option