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PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP. v. SCHWENDEMANN

No. 90-2490.

578 So.2d 319 (1991)

PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Anneliese SCHWENDEMANN, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rumberger Kirk Caldwell Cabaniss Burke & Wechsler, and Wendy F. Lumish, Miami, for appellant.

Anderson Moss Parks & Russo, Hicks Anderson & Blum, and Bambi Blum, Miami, for appellees.

Mershon Sawyer Johnston Dunwody & Cole, and Edward T. O'Donnell, Miami, for Product Liability Advisory Council, as amici curiae.

Podhurst Orseck Josefsberg Eaton Meadow Olin & Perwin, Miami, for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, as amici curiae.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

As was correctly held below, it is established Florida law that, even though the cause of action sued upon arose in a foreign state or nation, the doctrine of forum non conveniens does not apply as a matter of law, when, as here, the principal place of business of the defendant corporation is in this state. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co. v. Swain, 362 So.2d 17 (Fla. 1978); Houston v. Caldwell,

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