Opinion
No. 86-1858.
December 9, 1986. Rehearing Denied January 29, 1987.
An Appeal from a non-final order of the Circuit Court for Dade County; Robert H. Newman, Judge.
Hornsby Whisenand and Ronald P. Weil, Steven M. Kamp and Alberto Mora, Miami, for appellant.
Thomson Zeder Bohrer Werth Adorno Razook and Bruce A. Katzen and Jon Zeder, Miami, for appellee.
Before HUBBART, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.
Affirmed. See Post Tensioned Engineering Corp. v. Fairways Plaza Associates, 412 So.2d 871, 875 (Fla. 3d DCA) (recognizing a "strong public policy favoring arbitration"), review denied sub nom. Fairways Plaza Associates v. Commercial Construction Corp., 419 So.2d 1197 (Fla. 1982); Lalow v. Codomo, 101 So.2d 390, 393 (Fla. 1958) (the intention of the parties must be determined from an examination of the whole contract and not from the separate phrases or paragraphs); compare Fischer v. Rodrigues-Capriles, 472 So.2d 1315 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985) (a clause in a contract naming the situs for any arbitration hearings was not, per se, an obligation to arbitrate).