EAST-EUROPEAN INS. CO. v. BORDEN

No. 2D03-5145.

884 So.2d 233 (2004)

EAST-EUROPEAN INSURANCE COMPANY and Alfa Insurance PLC, Appellants, v. Victor K. BORDEN, Barnhardt Marine Insurance, Inc. and Ocean Insurance Management, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven L. Brannock, Paul Parrish, and Maegen E. Peek of Holland & Knight LLP, Tampa, for Appellants.

Nathaniel G.W. Pieper of Lau, Lane, Pieper, Conley & McCreadie, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee, Victor K. Borden.

David W. Henry and Barbara Rudolph Smith of Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A., Orlando, for Appellee, Barnhardt Marine Insurance, Inc.

John Bond Atkinson and Rebecca A. Brownell of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., Miami, for Appellee, Ocean Insurance Management, Inc.


FULMER, Judge.

East-European Insurance Company, now known as Alfa Insurance PLC, (collectively referred to herein as Alfa) appeals an order denying its motion to quash service of process in which Alfa asserted that the Florida court did not have personal jurisdiction over Alfa, a Russian corporation. We agree with this assertion and reverse.

The underlying litigation from which this appeal arises began when Victor Borden, a resident of Honduras, made an insurance...

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