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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hans BIERNATH, Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST OF BEVERLY, NEW JERSEY, Appellee.
    No. 87-2877.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Sept. 6, 1988.
    Hall & O’Brien and Scott Alan Orth, Miami, for appellant.
    Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson and Stanley H. Wakshlag and Nina Kole Brown and Kathleen J. Cooper, Miami, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and FERGUSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The order appealed dismisses a complaint for lack of in personam jurisdiction over a properly served defendant where full discovery on jurisdictional issues was frustrated. We reverse on the appellant’s first point without reaching other procedural questions. A plaintiff may seek non-party discovery as to issues of jurisdiction over the defendant. See F. Hoffmann LaRoche & Co., Ltd. v. Felix, 512 So.2d 997 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987).

REVERSED AND REMANDED. ■ 
      
      . Recent cases of this court may guide a resolution of the remaining jurisdictional issues. See Pipkin v. Wiggins, 526 So.2d 1002 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988) (long-arm jurisdiction does not require defendant/tortfeasor’s physical presence in the state) and EJ. Sales & Service, Inc. v. Southeast First Natl Bank of Miami, 415 So.2d 906 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982) (cause of action for conversion accrues where funds were wrongfully acquired).