Case ID: so3d_118/html/0268-02.html
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Author: {"author": "SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SHYAM AHUJA PRIVATE, LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. GARDEN ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, Appellee.
    No. 3D13-396.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    July 24, 2013.
    Rasco Klock Perez Nieto and Joseph P. Kloek, Jr. and Roberto E. Moran, Miami, for appellant.
    Hinshaw <& Culbertson and Douglas W. Swalina, Mitchell R. Bloomberg and Steven Carlyle Cronig, Coral Gables, for ap-pellee.
    Before WELLS and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
   SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Affirmed. See Advanced, Bodycare Solutions LLC v. Thione Int’l, Inc., 514 F.Supp.2d 1326, 1331 (1999) (“Unless a product enters the Florida market by ‘fortuitous circumstances,’ a manufacturer who sells a product in Florida cannot reasonably contend that it should not reasonably foresee being haled into a Florida court in the event of a dispute over the quality of that product.”); Gillins v. Trotwood Corp., 682 So.2d 693, 694 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (“[B]y undertaking to specially manufacture equipment knowing its intended destination is a certain state, the manufacturer purposefully creates a connection with that state substantial enough to support in personam jurisdiction.... ”).