Case Name: PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Anneliese SCHWENDEMANN, et al., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1991-03-19
Citations: 578 So. 2d 319
Docket Number: No. 90-2490
Parties: PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Anneliese SCHWENDEMANN, et al., Appellees.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 578
Pages: 319–320

Head Matter:
PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Anneliese SCHWENDEMANN, et al., Appellees.
No. 90-2490.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
March 19, 1991.
Rehearing Denied May 1, 1991.
Rumberger Kirk Caldwell Cabaniss Burke & Wechsler, and Wendy F. Lumish, Miami, for appellant.
Anderson Moss Parks & Russo, Hicks Anderson & Blum, and Bambi Blum, Miami, for appellees.
Mershon Sawyer Johnston Dunwody & Cole, and Edward T. O’Donnell, Miami, for Product Liability Advisory Council, as ami-ci curiae.
Podhurst Orseck Josefsberg Eaton Meadow Olin & Perwin, Miami, for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, as amici curiae.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
As was correctly held below, it is established Florida law that, even though the cause of action sued upon arose in a foreign state or nation, the doctrine of forum non conveniens does not apply as a matter of law, when, as here, the principal place of business of the defendant corporation is in this state. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co. v. Swain, 362 So.2d 17 (Fla.1978); Houston v. Caldwell, 359 So.2d 858 (Fla.1978); Transportes Aeros Mercantiles Pan Americanos v. Calderon, 480 So.2d 125 (Fla.3d DCA 1985) (Schwartz, C.J., specially concurring); Adams v. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co., 224 So.2d 797 (Fla. 1st DCA 1969); see Oboussier-Lowe v. Kuehne & Nagel (A.G. & Co.), 531 So.2d 249 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988); Tropigas, S.A. v. Anderson, 447 So.2d 338 (Fla.3d DCA 1984), pet. for review dismissed, 453 So.2d 45 (Fla.1984), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1074, 105 S.Ct. 568, 83 L.Ed.2d 509 (1984); Sempe v. Coordinated Caribbean Transport, Inc., 363 So.2d 194 (Fla.3d DCA 1978), cert. denied, 372 So.2d 467 (Fla.1979).
Affirmed.
SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GERSTEN, J., concur.