United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismissal of personal injury case against Bahamian resort and associated corporations is reversed where: 1) use of corporate agent in U.S. and numerous commercial contacts with U.S. satisfied the Florida long-arm statute and the federal due process analysis for general jurisdiction; and 2) a second defendant waived jurisdiction argument.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/05/2006
• Published 05/05/2006

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK, BARKETT and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joel S. Perwin, Miami, FL, for Stubbs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Maritza Pena, Alejandro Suarez, Marlow, Connell, Valerius, Abrams, Lowe & Adler, Paul H. Field, Parenti, Falk, Waas, Hernandez & Cortina, Coral Gables, FL, Beverly D. Eisenstadt, Mase & Lara, P.A., Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.