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recognizing fraud as satisfying the "tortious act" provision of the Florida Long-Arm Statute
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No. 97-3004.
December 9, 1998.
An Appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court of Dade County, Juan Ramirez, Jr., Judge.
Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick Strickroot and Steven E. Stark, Miami, for appellants.
Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin Perwin and Joel S. Perwin, Miami, for appellee.
Before JORGENSON, GERSTEN and GODERICH, JJ.
We affirm the trial court's denial of the defendants' motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction where the complaint alleged that the corporate officers named individually committed fraud or other intentional misconduct. § 48.193(1)(b), Fla. Stat. (1995); Doe v. Thompson, 620 So.2d 1004, 1006 n. 1 (Fla. 1993).
Affirmed.