UNITED SHIPPING CO. (NASSAU) LTD. v. WITMER

No. 98-1285

724 So.2d 722 (1999)

UNITED SHIPPING CO. (NASSAU) LTD., United Shipping Co. (Nassau) Ltd. d/b/a Tropicbird Boat Tour and Tropicbird Boat Tour, Appellants, v. Edith Susan WITMER, etc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 3, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moseley, Warren, Prichard & Parrish and Robert E. Warren and Kimberly Held Israel, Jacksonville, for appellants.

Thornton, Davis & Murray and Holly S. Harvey, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and SHEVIN, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

In our view, there is nothing in the Florida activities of the appellants, the operators of a boat tour in the Bahamas for which tickets are sold by Florida-based cruise lines on board their vessels, which justifies subjecting them to Florida jurisdiction in an action for the drowning of a Carnival Cruise line passenger while on the tour at Paradise Island. Specifically, neither section 48.193(1)(a), Florida Statutes (1997), see Walt Disney...

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