Case Name: FLORIDA AIRMOTIVE, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Deryl PERRY, d.b.a. Perry Enterprises, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Owen H. Gassaway, Third Party Defendant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-03-13
Citations: 321 F. App'x 815
Docket Number: No. 08-13457
Parties: FLORIDA AIRMOTIVE, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Deryl PERRY, d.b.a. Perry Enterprises, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Owen H. Gassaway, Third Party Defendant.
Judges: Before CARNES, MARCUS and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 321
Pages: 815–816

Head Matter:
FLORIDA AIRMOTIVE, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Deryl PERRY, d.b.a. Perry Enterprises, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Owen H. Gassaway, Third Party Defendant.
No. 08-13457
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
March 13, 2009.
Roberto Mario Vargas, Jones Foster Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant.
Alexander J. Repasky, Marietta, GA, Marshall Dore Louis, Sinclair, Louis, Heath, Nussbaum, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee.
Before CARNES, MARCUS and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
This case involves two contracts between Florida Airmotive, Inc. and Deryl Perry for the manufacture and sale of fourteen mobile airplane hangars. Due to a series of missteps, delays, and misunderstandings, the contracts were never completed. Florida Airmotive, having paid Perry $225,000 and having no hangars to show for it, sued. It lost. After a bench trial, the district court concluded that Perry substantially performed under the contracts by tendering to Florida Airmotive compliant drawings and specifications for the hangars, completing (although not delivering) four of the fourteen hangars, and remaining ready, willing, and able to complete and deliver the remaining ten hangars after the building permits were granted.
We review factual findings made by a district court after a bench trial for clear error and review de novo its conclusions of law. See Belize Telecom, Ltd. v. Government of Belize, 528 F.3d 1298, 1303 (11th Cir.2008). A district court's finding of fact is clearly erroneous if we are "left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." Holton v. City of Thomasville Sch. Dist., 425 F.3d 1325, 1350 (11th Cir.2005). By contrast, the district court does not commit clear error if its "account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety." Id. at 1351.
Florida Airmotive contends that the district court clearly erred in finding that Perry submitted code-compliant drawings and specifications. It argues that there is no evidence in the record that the documents provided by Perry were compliant with the Florida Business Code. We disagree. The documents and drawings are in the record. They were stamped and signed by an engineering firm licensed in Florida, in a manner that the district court reasonable could interpret as certifying them as compliant with the 2001 Florida Building Code. Based on that evidence, we are not left "left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." Id. Therefore, the district court did not err in holding that Perry substantially complied with the requirements of the contract.
AFFIRMED.