Alexander Proudfoot Company World Headquarters L.P. And Apco, Inc. v. Dennis C. Thayer

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• explaining that under McRae, “this court cannot merely rely on the contract Thayer signed that conferred personal jurisdiction and indicated venue”
• stating that under McRae, conferral of personal jurisdiction clauses are not enforced unless an independent ground for personal jurisdiction exists under the Florida long arm statute
• explaining that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the law of the state so that “federal decisions mirror those of a court in the forum state”
• analyzing Florida’s long-arm statute under the Erie framework and concluding that the state’s limitations on contract-based personal jurisdiction applied
• failure to turn over confidential information in Florida, as required by contract, sub- jected defendant to personal jurisdiction under the Florida long- arm statute now found at § 48.193(1)(a)(7)
• whether clause conferring personal jurisdiction was enforceable was issue governed by state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).