Case Name: BANCO INDUSTRIAL DE VENEZUELA, C.A., Appellant, v. T.P.M. INTERNATIONAL, INC., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-12-09
Citations: 500 So. 2d 248
Docket Number: No. 86-1858
Parties: BANCO INDUSTRIAL DE VENEZUELA, C.A., Appellant, v. T.P.M. INTERNATIONAL, INC., Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 500
Pages: 248–249

Head Matter:
BANCO INDUSTRIAL DE VENEZUELA, C.A., Appellant, v. T.P.M. INTERNATIONAL, INC., Appellee.
No. 86-1858.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 9, 1986.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 29, 1987.
Hornsby & Whisenand and Ronald P. Weil, Steven M. Kamp and Alberto Mora, Miami, for appellant.
Thomson Zeder Bohrer Werth Adorno & Razook and Bruce A. Katzen and Jon Zed-er, Miami, for appellee.
Before HUBBART, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Post Tensioned Engineering Corp. v. Fairways Plaza Associates, 412 So.2d 871, 875 (Fla. 3d DCA) (recognizing a "strong public policy favoring arbitration"), review denied sub norm. Fairways Plaza Associates v. Commercial Construction Corp., 419 So.2d 1197 (Fla.1982); Lalow v. Codomo, 101 So.2d 390, 393 (Fla.1958) (the intention of the parties must be determined from an examination of the whole contract and not from the separate phrases or paragraphs); compare Fischer v. Rodrigues-Capriles, 472 So.2d 1315 (Fla 3d DCA 1985) (a clause in a contract naming the situs for any arbitration hearings was not, per se, an obligation to arbitrate).