Case Name: BOCA INVESTORS GROUP, INC., Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Irwin POTASH; Stanley Cohen; Alexander Brodt; Ray Larsen; Suzanne Bosze; Bruce Youner; Murray Norkin; David Paresky; Ira Ostrow; Joe Slotnick; Robert E. Torter; Richard Voell; and Arnold Broser, Appellees/Cross-Appellants
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-10-16
Citations: 835 So. 2d 273
Docket Number: No. 3D01-2587
Parties: BOCA INVESTORS GROUP, INC., Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Irwin POTASH; Stanley Cohen; Alexander Brodt; Ray Larsen; Suzanne Bosze; Bruce Youner; Murray Norkin; David Paresky; Ira Ostrow; Joe Slotnick; Robert E. Torter; Richard Voell; and Arnold Broser, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
Judges: Before COPE, GODERICH and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 835
Pages: 273–276

Head Matter:
BOCA INVESTORS GROUP, INC., Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Irwin POTASH; Stanley Cohen; Alexander Brodt; Ray Larsen; Suzanne Bosze; Bruce Youner; Murray Norkin; David Paresky; Ira Ostrow; Joe Slotnick; Robert E. Torter; Richard Voell; and Arnold Broser, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
No. 3D01-2587.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 16, 2002.
Rehearing and Certification Denied Jan. 29, 2003.
Richman Greer Weil Brumbaugh Mira-bito & Christensen, Miami, and Gerald F. Richman, and Gary S. Betensky, West Palm Beach, and Michael J. Napaleone; Bruce S. Rogow and Beverly A. Pohl, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
Sacher, Zelman, Van Sant, Paul, Beiley, Hartman, & Waldman and Stanley A. Bei-ley, Miami; Mandel & McAliley and David S. Mandel and Bernard L. Egozi; Aragon, Burlington, Weil & Crockett and Robert K. Burlington and Ava J. Borrasso; Gil-bride, Heller & Brown and Lewis N. Brown and Terence M. Mullen; Genovese Joblove & Battista and David C. Cimo and Brett M. Amron; Holland & Knight and Daniel S. Pearson; Feldman Gale and Weber and Jeffrey D. Feldman and Lawrence S. Gordon; Gil Haddad; Billbrough & Marks and Geoffrey B. Marks; Guy Spiegelman; Kenny Nachwalter Seymour Arnold Critchlow & Spector and Michael Nachtwalter and Amanda M. McGovern; White & Case and Charles C. Kline and Darin A. DiBello; Hyman, Kaplan, Gan-guzza, Spector & Mars and Michael L. Hyman and Marc A. Halpern; Broad & Cassel and David A. Freedman; Samuel I. Burstyn; De La 0 & Marko and Miguel M. de la 0; for appellees.
Before COPE, GODERICH and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
SHEVIN, Judge.
Boca Investors Group, Inc., appeals an order dismissing its fourth amended complaint, entering judgment in defendants' favor on the pleadings and denying its motion to amend the complaint. We affirm.
Boca Investors filed its tortious interference with a business relationship suit to recover damages suffered as a result of defendants' filing three lawsuits that disrupted Boca Investors' efforts to purchase Fisher Island property. Defendants moved for judgment on the pleadings based on absolute litigation privilege. The trial court granted the motion based on Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A. v. U.S. Fire Ins. Co., 639 So.2d 606 (Fla.1994).
In determining the viability of a litigation privilege challenge to a tortious interference with a business relationship claim, the Levin court held that:
absolute immunity must be afforded to any act occurring during the course of a judicial proceeding, regardless of whether the act involves a defamatory statement, or other tortious behavior such as the alleged misconduct at issue, so long as the act has some relation to the proceeding.
Id., at 608. Here, as in Levin, all of the acts alleged in support of the tortious interference claim bear a relationship to the proceedings instituted by defendants. "The privilege arises upon the doing of any act necessarily preliminary to judicial proceedings." Burton v. Salzberg, 725 So.2d 450, 451 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999). Accordingly, those acts must be afforded absolute immunity. We, therefore, affirm the judgment. In addition, we also affirm the denial of the motion to amend the complaint to add a statutory anti-trust claim. Such a claim is also based on statements covered by the litigation privilege. See Burton, 725 So.2d at 451.
Affirmed.
GODERICH, J., concurs.