Case Name: Roger STREHLOW and Michael D. Buttelman, Appellants, v. LEGEND EQUITIES CORPORATION, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-02-24
Citations: 727 So. 2d 1076
Docket Number: No. 98-4092
Parties: Roger STREHLOW and Michael D. Buttelman, Appellants, v. LEGEND EQUITIES CORPORATION, Appellee.
Judges: FARMER, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 727
Pages: 1076–1077

Head Matter:
Roger STREHLOW and Michael D. Buttelman, Appellants, v. LEGEND EQUITIES CORPORATION, Appellee.
No. 98-4092
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Feb. 24, 1999.
Glenn D. Kelley of Kelley & Warren, P.A, West Palm Beach, for appellants.
Richard L. Martens, John D. Boykin and Jason S. Haselkorn of Boose Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens McBane & O’Connell, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We reverse a temporary injunction that enforces the non-solicitation clauses of the appellants' sales representative contracts. When the appellants signed the contracts in 1989, they worked for a different company. The contracts were assigned to the appellee when it purchased the business. The. appellants never consented to the assignment.
Under Florida law, a contract for personal services is not assignable absent consent, and a covenant that restricts competition after termination of such a contract is unenforceable by the assignee unless the party who is burdened by the restriction agrees. See Johnston v. Dockside Fueling of No. America, Inc., 658 So.2d 618 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995); Schweiger v. Hoch, 223 So.2d 557 (Fla. 4th DCA 1969). We decline to revisit Schiveiger as the appellee asks. We find the reasoning and the result in that case to be sound.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
FARMER, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.