United States Eleventh Circuit

Florida's Long-Arm statue permits the assertion of in personam jurisdiction over an out-of-state auditing company that, in the negotiation of contracts and in the rendition of services from its out-of-state office, telephonically contacted a Florida-based partnership and electronically accessed its computer files.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2005
• Published 08/23/2005

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth J. Catanzarite, Catanzarite Law Corp., Anaheim, CA, Mark C. Dungan, Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg, P.A., Sarasota, FL, C. Morris Mullin, Columbus, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott A. Cole, Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A., Miami, FL, Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher, Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A., Tampa, FL, Joel M. Wolosky, Bondy & Schloss, LLP, New York City, Michael S. Reeves, Gorby, Reeves & Peters, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.