03-3334 FISHER V. POTASH

State: Florida

Court: Florida Southern District Court

Docket No: 3d03-3334

Case Date: 02/04/2004

Plaintiff: 03-3334 FISHER

Defendant: POTASH

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA THIRD DISTRICT JANUARY TERM, A.D. 2004

FISHER ISLAND HOLDINGS, L.L.C.** Appellant, vs. ** ** CASE NO. 3D03-3334 LOWER TRIBUNAL NO. 02-23067

DR. IRWIN POTASH, in his ** capacity as one of a majority of Equity Member Directors of ** Fisher Island Club, Inc., and on behalf of the Equity ** Members of Fisher Island Club, Inc., and FISHER ISLAND CLUB, ** INC., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, ** Appellees. **

Opinion filed February 4, 2004. An Appeal from a nonfinal order of the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Ronald M. Friedman, Judge. Greenberg Traurig, P.A., and Alan T. Dimond, Elliot H. Scherker, and Elliot B. Kula; Phillips, Eisinger & Brown, for appellant. Aragon, Burlington, Weil, Schwiep, Kaplan & Blonsky, P.A., and Robert K. Burlington, Daniel F. Blonsky, and Alejandro F. Hoyos, for appellees. Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE, J., and BARKDULL, THOMAS H., JR., Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM. We reverse an order of the trial court staying and abating an arbitration instituted by Fisher Island Holdings, L.L.C.

("Holdings"), a non-party to the litigation pending between the appellees. No jurisdiction over Holdings was obtained by judicial

process, and Holdings did not voluntarily appear in the pending litigation by seeking any affirmative relief. inappropriate to enter the order under review. Therefore, it was See ATM Ltd. v.

Caporicci Footwear Ltd., Corp., 28 Fla. L. Weekly D2834 (Fla. 3d DCA December 10, 2004); Norville v. Bellsouth Advertising & Pub. Corp., 664 So. 2d 16 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995); Moretto v. Staub, 370 So. 2d 1220 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). This matter is returned to the trial court, which may consider appropriate proceedings to formally bring Holdings within the pending litigation as an interested party. Reversed and remanded with directions.

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