Stomar, Inc. v. Lucky Seven Riverboat Company, LLC

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• concluding that nonresident defendant had sufficient minimum contacts with Florida where contract required “more than mere obligation to make payment in Florida.”
• holding that where a non-resident defendant entered into a brokerage agreement with plaintiff for sale of a ship the defendant was subject to specific personal jurisdiction because'the agreement required substantial services in Florida including marketing, negotiation and payment
• finding that because the individual defendants were acting in their representative capacity on behalf of the limited liability company in executing the brokerage agreement, the circuit court did not have personal jurisdiction over them
• finding allegation that owner of vessel breached agreement with Florida ship broker by failing to pay commission owed to broker in Florida sufficient to satisfy first prong of jurisdictional inquiry
• allegation that owner of vessel breached agreement with Florida ship broker by failing to pay commission owed to broker in Florida sufficient to satisfy first prong of jurisdictional inquiry
• sufficient minimum contacts where the defendant was not only obligated to make payment in Florida but also “hired plaintiff to perform brokerage services on its behalf in Florida” for the purpose of selling the defendant’s vessel in Florida

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).