Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-10 15:03:34.599795+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                          Opinion filed May 10, 2023.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

                             No. 3D22-0529
                       Lower Tribunal No. 21-18152

                           QR Triptych LLC,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                            LV Midtown LLC,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Barbara
Areces, Judge.

     Shutts & Bowen, LLP, Aliette D. Rodz, and Julissa Rodriguez and
Garrett A. Tozier (Tampa), for appellant.

    Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP, Jeffrey I. Snyder, Jake M.
Greenberg, and Benjamin A. Mitchel, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, C.J., and SCALES and BOKOR, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See Rule 1.170(a), Fla. R. Civ. P.; Londono v. Turkey Creek,

Inc., 609 So. 2d 14, 19 (Fla. 1992) (“A compulsory counterclaim is ‘a

defendant’s cause of action arising out of the transaction or occurrence that

formed the subject matter of the plaintiff’s claim.’”); Orix Capital Mkts., LLC v.

Park Ave. Assocs., Ltd., 881 So. 2d 646, 650 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004) (“A primary

consequence of a party's failure to assert a compulsory counterclaim is that

such failure ‘constitutes a waiver of the [party's] right to recover on it.’”);

Floridian Cmty. Bank, Inc. v. Bloom, 25 So. 3d 43, 45 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009).