Case Name: RIVERLAND AND INDIAN SUN L.C., Appellant, v. L.J. MELODY & COMPANY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-08-11
Citations: 879 So. 2d 1271
Docket Number: No. 3D03-3325
Parties: RIVERLAND AND INDIAN SUN L.C., Appellant, v. L.J. MELODY & COMPANY, Appellee.
Judges: Before RAMIREZ and SHEPHERD, JJ., and BARKDULL, THOMAS H„ JR., Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 879
Pages: 1271–1274

Head Matter:
RIVERLAND AND INDIAN SUN L.C., Appellant, v. L.J. MELODY & COMPANY, Appellee.
No. 3D03-3325.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Aug. 11, 2004.
Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., and Mark R. Cheskin, Richard C. Lorenzo, and Brian L. Lerner, for appellant.
Aragon, Burlington, Weil, Schwiep, Kap-lan & Blonsky, P.A., and Ronald P. Weil and Christopher N. Dawson, for appellee.
Before RAMIREZ and SHEPHERD, JJ., and BARKDULL, THOMAS H„ JR., Senior Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This controversy arises out of a real estate brokerage agreement, which created a trust "res" from a portion of the purchase funds in favor of the broker at the time of closing.
The contract reads in part:
3) In the event the Owner closes a sale of the Property in accordance with the terms herein, then it shall pay to the Broker a fee.... All fees will be paid by wire transfer out of sale proceeds by the closing as a line item on the closing statement.
When it became apparent to the broker that the purchase and sales transaction was going to be closed without notice to it and, allegedly, contrary to the terms of the brokerage agreement, it sought and obtained a temporary injunction without notice due to lack of time, freezing the amount of the commission by the impressment of a constructive trust pending fur ther order of the court.
Seller has appealed, urging an abuse of discretion in the entry of a temporary injunction. We disagree. The brokerage agreement identified a particular fund to be set aside at the closing for the broker's benefit. Only in the event the transaction closed was the broker to receive funds, and then only from proceeds paid by the purchaser. The broker was clearly a named beneficiary of a particular fund and, therefore, a constructive trust was alleged and the temporary injunction was proper. See Vargas v. Vargas, 771 So.2d 594 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000); Wise v. Schmidek, 649 So.2d 336 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995); Korn v. Ambassador Homes, Inc., 546 So.2d 756 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989); Campbell v. Pace, 369 So.2d 413 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979).
We therefore affirm the order under review.
Affirmed.
RAMIREZ, J" and BARKDULL, THOMAS H., JR., Senior Judge, concur.
. The appellant abandoned its Motion to Dissolve, but succeeded with a motion to increase the injunction bond.