EMERSON v. COLE

No. 2D02-1081.

847 So.2d 606 (2003)

Steven EMERSON, Appellant, v. Richard COLE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

June 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Horowitz, New York, and Wayne Lee Thomas, Tampa, co-counsel for Appellant.

Patricia Fields Anderson of Patricia Fields Anderson, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Appellee.


FULMER, Judge.

Steven Emerson, plaintiff below in a libel suit, appeals the order dismissing Richard Cole, defendant below, based on lack of personal jurisdiction. The issue on appeal is whether Cole has sufficient minimum contacts with Florida such that he should reasonably anticipate being haled into a Florida court based on allegedly defamatory statements he made over the telephone for a news story to be published in...

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