AMERICAN MOTORS CORP. v. ABRAHANTES

Nos. 84-2294, 84-2295.

474 So.2d 271 (1985)

AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION and Jeep Corporation, Appellants, v. Armando ABRAHANTES and Maria Abrahantes, Appellees. AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION and Jeep Corporation, Appellants, v. James EXON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied September 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole and David A. Bailey, Miami, for appellants.

Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh and Scott D. Sheftall and Thomas Meeks, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.


JORGENSON, Judge.

American Motors Corporation [AMC] and Jeep Corporation [Jeep] appeal from the denial of their motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. We have jurisdiction, Fla.R.App.P. 9.130(a)(3)(C)(i), and, for the reasons which follow, reverse.

The claims of the plaintiffs, the Abrahanteses and Exon, arise out of an accident involving a 1981 Jeep CJ-5 in which the plaintiffs were passengers. The accident occurred on the island of Grand Cayman...

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