JOHNSON, POPE, BOKOR, RUPPEL & BURNS, LLP v. FORIER

No. 2D09-2009.

19 So.3d 452 (2009)

JOHNSON, POPE, BOKOR, RUPPEL & BURNS, LLP, a Florida limited liability partnership; and Roger Larson, an individual, Appellants, v. John FORIER, an individual; Paradise Lakes Resort, LLC, a Florida limited liability company; PLR Management, LLC, a Florida limited liability company; Paradise Lakes Resort Realty, LLC, a Florida limited liability company; and Cabana at Paradise, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Gerdes and Brandon S. Vesely of Keane, Reese, Vesely & Gerdes, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Appellants.

Andrea Teves Smith and J. Davis Connor of Peterson & Myers, P.A., Lakeland, for Appellees.


PER CURIAM.

Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP, and Roger Larson (collectively, Johnson Pope) appeal the circuit court's order that denied their motion to compel arbitration.1 After a nonevidentiary hearing on the motion that was originally scheduled for five minutes but lasted considerably longer, the trial judge declined to order arbitration and explained:

[B]ecause there obviously appears to be a major factual dispute...

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