Case Name: KINCO AVIATION, INC., a Georgia Corporation, Appellant/Petitioner, v. SOWELL AIRCRAFT SERVICE, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee/Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-08-17
Citations: 715 So. 2d 376
Docket Number: No. 98-783
Parties: KINCO AVIATION, INC., a Georgia Corporation, Appellant/Petitioner, v. SOWELL AIRCRAFT SERVICE, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee/Respondent.
Judges: JOANOS and KAHN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 715
Pages: 376–377

Head Matter:
KINCO AVIATION, INC., a Georgia Corporation, Appellant/Petitioner, v. SOWELL AIRCRAFT SERVICE, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee/Respondent.
No. 98-783.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Aug. 17, 1998.
Anthony E. Fiorentino, Pensacola, for Appellant/Petitioner.
Daniel Harmon III and Timothy J. Sloan, of Harmon & Sloan, P.A., Panama City, for Appellee/Respondent.

Opinion:
BARFIELD, Chief Judge.
We quash the trial court's order transferring the cause to the county court. Once a cause has been transferred to the circuit court pursuant to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.060(a) and 1.170(j) because the good faith demand of the counterclaim exceeds the jurisdiction of the county court in which the action was pending, jurisdiction remains in the circuit court regardless of whether some or all of the counts of the counterclaim are thereafter dismissed. See National Juice Corporation v. Gilligan, 63 So.2d 914 (Fla. 1953); Gordon v. Goodrich, 347 So.2d 715 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); Watt v. Bill Branch Chevrolet, Inc., 292 So.2d 56 (Fla. 2d DCA 1974). See also City of Miami v. Jafra Steel Corporation, 184 So.2d 178 (Fla.1966); A-One Coin Laundry Equipment Co. v. Waterside Towers Condominium Association, Inc., 561 So.2d 590 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990). We decline to address the remaining issues presented by the petitioner, because they are inappropriate to this certiorari proceeding.
JOANOS and KAHN, JJ., concur.