Case Name: Hans BIERNATH, Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST OF BEVERLY, NEW JERSEY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-09-06
Citations: 530 So. 2d 505
Docket Number: No. 87-2877
Parties: Hans BIERNATH, Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST OF BEVERLY, NEW JERSEY, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 530
Pages: 505–506

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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).