Case Name: AMERICAN BUILDINGS COMPANY, Appellant, v. ENERGY SUN POWER, INC., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-12-10
Citations: 423 So. 2d 469
Docket Number: No. 82-2077
Parties: AMERICAN BUILDINGS COMPANY, Appellant, v. ENERGY SUN POWER, INC., Appellee.
Judges: SCHEB, A.C.J., and CAMPBELL and SCHOONOVER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 423
Pages: 469–469

Head Matter:
AMERICAN BUILDINGS COMPANY, Appellant, v. ENERGY SUN POWER, INC., Appellee.
No. 82-2077.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 10, 1982.
Lawrence J. Robinson and Linda Brooks Robinson of Robinson & Robinson, P.A., Sarasota, for appellant.
William J. Fuller, III of Fuller, Breslau & Stinnett, P.A., Sarasota, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an interlocutory appeal whereby appellant, defendant below, challenges the lower court's order denying its motion to quash service of process and to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.
Appellee brought an action for damages against, appellant, a foreign corporation, and two other defendants. Service of process was attempted on appellant by serving an individual, H.K. Smith, whom appellee believed to be appellant's agent. Appellant filed a motion to quash service of process and to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. An affidavit of the purported agent, H.K. Smith, was attached to appellant's motion. Appellant's motion and Smith's affidavit both maintained that Smith had never been appellant's agent and that neither Smith, himself, nor appellant had ever held him out as such. According to the appendix submitted on appeal, there was no rebuttal filed to the motion and affidavit.
We find that in view of the unrebutted affidavit which denied Smith was appellant's agent, the trial judge erred in denying appellant's motion to quash and dismiss. Biscayne Athletic Club, Inc. v. Iacono, 367 So.2d 275 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979).
Accordingly, the order appealed is REVERSED.
SCHEB, A.C.J., and CAMPBELL and SCHOONOVER, JJ., concur.