Mr. Parthenais must have been furious! How could there even be a misunderstanding when everything seemed to clear to him?
According to Parthenais, a principal of the Canadian-based Venetian Salami Company contacted him at his business in Florida and engaged…
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in International Shoe v. Washington, Florida enacted its first long-arm statute, currently found in Section 48.193. This section, aptly titled “Acts subjecting person to jurisdiction of courts of state,” provides two different…
Up until the later part of the nineteenth century, personal jurisdiction was tied to a state’s territorial jurisdiction. In those days, personal jurisdiction over a defendant was established either by serving a defendant with process within the boundaries of the…
A court’s decision to exercise jurisdiction over the parties in a civil action is probably the most consequential aspect of any civil proceeding. Whether the court even has jurisdiction over a defendant is one of the first questions that a…
