Legal Opinion

Tawana Carmouche v. Tamborlee Management, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided June 15, 2015No. 14-14325PublishedCited by 137 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court had general personal jurisdiction over Tamborlee Management, Inc., a Panama corporation that provides shore excursions for tourists in Belize. After Tawana Carmouche was injured during a shore excursion operated by Tambor-lee in Belize, she sued Tamborlee for negligence in the Southern District of Florida. Tamborlee moved to dismiss Carmouche’s complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, and the district court granted the motion after allowing the parties to take jurisdictional discovery. Because…

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3Cited by137 opinions

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