What Do Environmental Activists and Loan Guarantors Have in Common?
The First and Fourth Districts have handed down strong opinions this month on Florida personal jurisdiction, indicating that non-Floridians cannot be haled into court here if there sole minimum contacts involve (1) guaranteeing bank loans made here, (2) infrequent emails/phone calls into Florida, (3) schools having alumni groups in Florida, and (4) correspondence school/distance learning students in Florida. In Ed Labry, Bill Benton and Kevin Adams v. Whitney National Bank, AB9G, LLC, Steven R. Bradley, Jon D. Laplante, and Brad Zeitlin, non-Florida guarantors of a defaulted Florida bank loan were not subject to personal jurisdiction since the guarantors lacked the sufficient minimum contacts with the state of Florida, despite it being a Florida contract. In the companion cases of Diana Reiss, Ph.D. v. Ocean World, S.A. and The Trustees of Columbia University in New York City et al. v. Ocean World, S.A. Earth Island Institute, Emory University, et al., personal jurisdiction kept an env
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