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· 6/12/2002

La Reunion Francaise v. La Costena

Citations

  • 818 So. 2d 657
  • 2002 WL 1285260

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that there was no personal jurisdiction over the foreign defendant and, therefore, no need to reach other issues raised in the motion to dismiss, including the issue of forum non conveniens
  • holding that the maintenance of a Florida bank account, even if used to collect premiums, is too tenuous a contact to support an assertion of general jurisdiction over a foreign insurer
  • concluding that there was no personal jurisdiction over the foreign defendant and therefore no need to reach other issues raised in the motion to dismiss, including the issue of forum non conveniens
  • concluding that there was no personal jurisdiction over the foreign defendant and therefore no need to reach other issues raised in the motion to dismiss, including the issue of forum non conveniens
  • finding that an insurance broker’s maintenance of a Florida bank account which may be used for the collection of premiums in Florida was “too tenuous to support an assertion of jurisdiction.”
  • dismissed when \[n]o relevant evidence [was] located in Florida [and] plaintiff was unable to list even one Florida witness\

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Judges: Jorgenson, Levy, and Ramirez

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