CSX TRANSP., INC. v. DEEM

No. 1D05-4387.

933 So.2d 673 (2006)

CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., Appellant, v. John L. DEEM, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 13, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Homer H. Humphries, Jr., and Ronald R. Oberdier, of Humphries & Oberdier, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellant.

Walton G. Bondurant, Jr., of Bondurant Law, P.C., Portsmouth, VA; Suzanne Bass, Jacksonville; and Michael J. Korn, of Korn & Zehmer, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellee.


BARFIELD, J.

The appellant challenges the trial court's denial of its motion to dismiss a suit on the ground of forum non conveniens. In Kinney System, Inc. v. Continental Ins. Co., 674 So.2d 86 (Fla.1996), the Florida Supreme Court adopted the federal standard for application of the common law doctrine of forum non conveniens, involving a four step analysis. The court first determines that an alternative forum...

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