District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a suit asserting claims related to the care and treatment of an individual while she was at a nursing home, an order denying defendant-foreign corporation's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed where plaintiff failed to establish a basis for a Florida court to acquire long-arm jurisdiction over defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2006
• Published 08/11/2006

Judges

• SALCINES, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Craig Knox and George T. Levesque of Andrews, Crabtree, Knox & Andrews, LLP, Tallahassee, for Appellant., No appearance for RHA/Florida Operations, Inc.;   Healthprime, Inc.;   HP/Management Group, Inc.;  Dixie Healthcare Investors, L.P.;  HP/Hyde, Inc.;  Delta Healthgroup, Inc.;  Stella Pappas;  Janet Vincenti;  Tomiko Trigo;  and Joan Eleanor Baldwin;  (as to Glen Oaks Health Care).


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan B. Morrison of Law Offices of Susan B. Morrison, P.A., and Blair N. Mendes of Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee Lee Roy McKinney, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lorene McKinney.