Internet Escrow Servs. v. Hendel

Full title: Internet Escrow Services, Inc., etc., Appellant, v. Kenneth Hendel…

Court: Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Date published: Feb 3, 2021

317 So. 3d 1182 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)

Opinion

No. 3D20-575

02-03-2021

INTERNET ESCROW SERVICES, INC., etc., Appellant, v. Kenneth HENDEL, Appellee.

EBI Law, PLLC, and B. Elizabeth Interthal (Tampa); Garbett, Allen & Roza, P.A., and David S. Garbett, for appellant. Stok Kon + Braverman, and Robert A. Stok, Gabriel G. Mandler and Yosef Kudan (Fort Lauderdale), for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

EBI Law, PLLC, and B. Elizabeth Interthal (Tampa); Garbett, Allen & Roza, P.A., and David S. Garbett, for appellant.

Stok Kon + Braverman, and Robert A. Stok, Gabriel G. Mandler and Yosef Kudan (Fort Lauderdale), for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, SCALES and HENDON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Briceno v. Sprint Spectrum, L.P., 911 So. 2d 176, 179 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005) (recognizing that Florida courts will generally enforce choice of law provisions contained in an agreement); City of Bell v. Superior Court, 220 Cal.App.4th 236, 163 Cal. Rptr. 3d 90, 100-01 (2013) (applying California law which holds that for a contract's indemnification clause to apply to first party claims between the indemnitee and the indemnitor, "the [clause's] language on the point must be particularly clear and explicit and will be construed strictly against the indemnitee").