Case Name: SHYAM AHUJA PRIVATE, LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. GARDEN ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2013-07-24
Citations: 118 So. 3d 268
Docket Number: No. 3D13-396
Parties: SHYAM AHUJA PRIVATE, LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. GARDEN ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, Appellee.
Judges: Before WELLS and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 118
Pages: 268–269

Head Matter:
SHYAM AHUJA PRIVATE, LIMITED, etc., Appellant, v. GARDEN ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, Appellee.
No. 3D13-396.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 24, 2013.
Rasco Klock Perez Nieto and Joseph P. Kloek, Jr. and Roberto E. Moran, Miami, for appellant.
Hinshaw <& Culbertson and Douglas W. Swalina, Mitchell R. Bloomberg and Steven Carlyle Cronig, Coral Gables, for ap-pellee.
Before WELLS and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
Affirmed. See Advanced, Bodycare Solutions LLC v. Thione Int'l, Inc., 514 F.Supp.2d 1326, 1331 (1999) ("Unless a product enters the Florida market by 'fortuitous circumstances,' a manufacturer who sells a product in Florida cannot rea sonably contend that it should not reasonably foresee being haled into a Florida court in the event of a dispute over the quality of that product."); Gillins v. Trotwood Corp., 682 So.2d 693, 694 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) ("[B]y undertaking to specially manufacture equipment knowing its intended destination is a certain state, the manufacturer purposefully creates a connection with that state substantial enough to support in personam jurisdiction.... ").