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- Title: Hoffman v. Air India
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 26, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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The District Judge dismissed Appellants suits (filed January 1967) against Air India for lack of jurisdiction over the person of that foreign corporation. The sole question presented is whether Florida's long arm statute, F.S.A. §§ 47.16, 47.17, 47.171, and especially § 47.17(4),1 is long enough to subject Air India to suit in Florida on a claim which did not arise in any way out of Florida activities.2 We reverse. Air India's only troublesome contention is that for service of process on its resident agent to be perfected under Florida's long arm statute the cause of action must arise out of the foreign corporation's business activities within the State of Florida notwithstanding the fact that it maintained an office in Miami in which it regularly carried on substantial business for its own profit.3