Case Name: Michael J. WEBER, Appellant, v. Salvador BONILLA-MATHE, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-02-13
Citations: 807 So. 2d 170
Docket Number: No. 3D01-2722
Parties: Michael J. WEBER, Appellant, v. Salvador BONILLA-MATHE, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON and RAMIREZ, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 807
Pages: 170–171

Head Matter:
Michael J. WEBER, Appellant, v. Salvador BONILLA-MATHE, Appellee.
No. 3D01-2722.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 13, 2002.
Feldman, Gale & Weber and Jeffrey D. Feldman and Michael J. Weber and James A. Stepan, Miami, for appellant.
Adorno & Zeder and Raoul G. Cantero, III, Coconut Grove, and Omar Ortega, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON and RAMIREZ, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
The defendant in an action for breach of a real estate buy and sell agreement which contained an arbitration clause, appeals from an order denying his motion to dismiss the complaint outright on the ground that the plaintiff had not invoked the arbitration clause. Quite apart from the fact that no authority is or could be cited to support the alarming proposition that a party's failure to invoke arbitration deprives her of the right even to maintain a common law action, the order is not one which determines the entitlement to arbitration under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130(a)(3)(C)(iv). Southeastern Title Ins. Co. v. Curtis, 156 So.2d 855 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963). Since this is the only provision which even arguably could support appellate review of the non-final order below, see Thomas v. Silvers, 701 So.2d 389 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997), affirmed, 748 So.2d 263 (Fla.1999); Martin Electronics, Inc. v. Glombowski, 705 So.2d 26 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997), the appeal is dismissed.