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Date Created: 2024-02-21 16:05:30.560095+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                       Opinion filed February 21, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D23-0424
                         Lower Tribunal No. 16-44
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                        Phyllis Zyskind, et al.,
                                 Appellants,

                                     vs.

                            Elena Koss, etc.,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from non-final orders from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade
County, Reemberto Diaz, Judge.

      The Hall Law Firm, P.A., and Adam S. Hall and Roarke Maxwell, for
appellants.

     Jay M. Levy, P.A., and Jay M. Levy, for appellee.

Before LOGUE, C.J., and MILLER and BOKOR, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. Shwartzberg v. Knobloch, 98 So. 3d 173, 181 (Fla. 2d DCA

2012) (“[A] nonresident corporate officer is subject to personal jurisdiction if

the officer directed ‘fraud or other intentional misconduct’ at parties in the

State of Florida.”) (citation omitted); see Walter Lorenz Surgical, Inc. v.

Teague, 721 So. 2d 358, 359 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998) (“The court's sole inquiry

and determination [is] whether the tort as alleged occurred in Florida, and

not whether the alleged tort actually occurred.”); Amersham Enters., Inc. v.

Hakim-Daccach, 333 So. 3d 289, 297 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022) (“Our Supreme

Court has previously held that directing a conspiracy and tortious conduct

toward Florida satisfies both specific long-arm jurisdiction and the due

process concerns implicated in a minimum contacts analysis.”) (citing §

48.193(1)(a)(2), Fla. Stat.); see also NHB Advisors, Inc. v. Czyzyk, 95 So.

3d 444, 448 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012) (“[I]f a plaintiff has successfully alleged a

cause of action for conspiracy among the defendants to commit tortious acts

toward the plaintiff, and if the plaintiff has successfully alleged that any

member of that conspiracy committed tortious acts in Florida in furtherance

of that conspiracy, then all of the conspirators are subject to the jurisdiction

of Florida through its long-arm statute.”).

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