Case Name: TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES, INC. d/b/a Teledyne Continental Motors, a foreign corporation, Petitioner, v. MUSTANG RANCH AIRCRAFT, INC. d/b/a Barney's Auctions, and Marshall Gibson d/b/a Gibson Aviation, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-03-29
Citations: 753 So. 2d 785
Docket Number: No. 3D00-407
Parties: TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES, INC. d/b/a Teledyne Continental Motors, a foreign corporation, Petitioner, v. MUSTANG RANCH AIRCRAFT, INC. d/b/a Barney’s Auctions, and Marshall Gibson d/b/a Gibson Aviation, Respondents.
Judges: Before COPE, SHEVIN and SORONDO, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 753
Pages: 785–785

Head Matter:
TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES, INC. d/b/a Teledyne Continental Motors, a foreign corporation, Petitioner, v. MUSTANG RANCH AIRCRAFT, INC. d/b/a Barney’s Auctions, and Marshall Gibson d/b/a Gibson Aviation, Respondents.
No. 3D00-407.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
March 29, 2000.
Barwiek, Dillian, Lambert & Ice, P.A., and Thomas E. Ice, Miami, for petitioner.
Lionel Barnet, Miami, for respondents.
Before COPE, SHEVIN and SORONDO, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We quash the trial court's order requiring the representative of the petitioner-defendant corporation to appear for deposition in Miami-Dade County instead of at the location of the defendant's headquarters in Alabama. The defendant is not seeking affirmative relief in this lawsuit. "A defendant . will not'be required to travel a great distance and incur substantial expenses to be deposed by the plaintiff, unless the defendant is seeking affirmative relief. Thus, under Florida law a nonresident corporate defendant need not produce a nonresident corporate officer in Florida." Fortune Ins. Co. v. Santelli 621 So.2d 546, 547 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993) (citations omitted); see Bruce J. Berman, Florida Civil Procedure ¶ 310.5[2][b] (1999 ed.). It has been said that there is an exception for . "extraordinary circumstances," United Teachers Assocs. Ins. Co. v. Vanwinkle, 657 So.2d 1232 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995), but no such circumstances have been shown to exist here.
Certiorari granted.