SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD. v. FIELDS

No. 1D20-1401.

346 So.3d 102 (2022)

SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD., Appellant, v. Bennett FIELDS, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 18, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Lanier Luck , Todd R. Ehrenreich , and Jenna L. Fischman of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Coral Gables, for Appellant.

Michael E. Riley of Gray Robinson, PA, Tallahassee; Celene H. Humphries and Thomas J. Seider of Brannock & Humphries, Tampa; Michael G. Haire Jr. of Haire Law, LLC, Tallahassee; Daniel Phillips of Phillips Law, PA, Tallahassee; Joseph J. Nagy of Kelley Kronenberg, Fort Lauderdale; and James Lucien Johnson of Gray Robinson, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees.


Florida resident Bennett Fields was seriously burned when his vaping device (made by a Texas company and sold in Florida by a Georgia company) exploded and caught fire. Fields now seeks to sue the South Korean company that manufactured the batteries in the device at the time. Given these facts and their geographic reach, it should be...

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