Rose Financial Limited Partnership, et al., Appellants, v. LLC (2022)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rose Financial Limited Partnership, et al., Appellants, v. South Bay Holding LLC, et al., Appellees.

Nos. 3D21-122, 3D21-2306

Decided: December 14, 2022

Before LOGUE, LINDSEY, and MILLER, JJ.

Arnaldo Velez, P.A., and Arnaldo Velez; Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC, and Eric L. Lewis and Elizabeth M. Velez (New York, NY), and Mark J. Leimkuhler and Chiara Spector-Naranjo, (Washington, D.C.), for appellants. Akerman LLP, and Robert I. Chaskes and Noelle P. Pankey, for appellees Amicorp Trustees (New Zealand) Limited, Amicorp (Barbados) Limited, Amicorp Mexico S.A. de C.V. Sofom Enr., Amicorp (BVI) Trustees Limited, Amicorp Curaçao B.V., Amicorp Management Limited and Amicorp New Zealand Limited ; White & Case LLP, and James N. Robinson, Maria J. Beguiristain, Zachary B. Dickens, and Andrew K. Gershenfeld, for appellees SGG Management (Curaçao), N.V. & SGG Management (BVI) Ltd.; Mayer Brown LLP, and Mark G. Hanchet, Robert W. Hamburg, and Victoria D. Whitney, (New York, NY); Stumphauzer Foslid Sloman Ross & Kolaya, PLLC, and Ian M. Ross, for appellee Banque Pictet & Cie SA.

Affirmed. Banco de los Trabajadores v. Cortez Moreno, 237 So. 3d 1127, 1136 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (“We cannot read section 48.193(1)(a)'s dual requirements—both that a defendant does an enumerated act in Florida and that the cause of action arises from an enumerated act in Florida—as authorizing the exercise of specific jurisdiction when the only tort relied upon to confer such jurisdiction is a civil conspiracy to commit a tort, and no element of the underlying tort is alleged to have occurred in Florida.”).

PER CURIAM.

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