Shyam Ahuja Private, Ltd. v. Garden Islands International, LLC

Full title: SHYAM AHUJA PRIVATE, LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. GARDEN ISLANDS…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Date published: Jul 24, 2013

118 So. 3d 268 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

Opinion

No. 3D13–396.

2013-07-24

SHYAM AHUJA PRIVATE, LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. GARDEN ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, Appellee.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami–Dade County, Spencer Eig, Judge. Rasco Klock Perez Nieto and Joseph P. Klock, Jr. and Roberto E. Moran, Miami, for appellant. Hinshaw & Culbertson and Douglas W. Swalina, Mitchell R. Bloomberg and Steven Carlyle Cronig, Coral Gables, for appellee.

SCHWARTZ

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami–Dade County, Spencer Eig, Judge.
Rasco Klock Perez Nieto and Joseph P. Klock, Jr. and Roberto E. Moran, Miami, for appellant. Hinshaw & Culbertson and Douglas W. Swalina, Mitchell R. Bloomberg and Steven Carlyle Cronig, Coral Gables, for appellee.
Before WELLS and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Affirmed. See Advanced Bodycare Solutions LLC v. Thione Int'l, Inc., 514 F.Supp.2d 1326, 1331 (1999) (“Unless a product enters the Florida market by ‘fortuitous circumstances,’ a manufacturer who sells a product in Florida cannot reasonablycontend that it should not reasonably foresee being haled into a Florida court in the event of a dispute over the quality of that product.”); Gillins v. Trotwood Corp., 682 So.2d 693, 694 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (“[B]y undertaking to specially manufacture equipment knowing its intended destination is a certain state, the manufacturer purposefully creates a connection with that state substantial enough to support in personam jurisdiction....”).