Simmons v. Miami Herald Pub. Co.

Full title: WILLARD R. SIMMONS, APPELLANT, v. THE MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Feb 13, 1984

444 So. 2d 29 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

Opinion

No. 83-1087.

December 13, 1983. Rehearing Denied February 13, 1984.

Appeal from a non-final order of the Circuit Court, Dade County; Milton A. Friedman, Judge.

Kozyak Tropin and Charles W. Throckmorton, IV, Miami, for appellant.

Steel, Hector Davis and Frank P. Scruggs, II, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The order denying Simmons's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed upon the authority of Investors Associates, Inc. v. Moss, 441 So.2d 1144 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983), Hyco Manufacturing Co. v. Rotex International Corp., 355 So.2d 471 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978), and Nichols v. Seabreeze Properties, Inc., 302 So.2d 139 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974).

Reversed.