Triple Fish America, Inc. v. Triple Fish International, L.C.

Petitioners seek certiorari review of the trial court’s order granting appellee Dietmar Slonek’s motion for protective order and requiring petitioners to travel to Germany to take Slonek’s deposition.1 Concluding that the trial court properly granted Slonek’s motion for protective order, we deny the petition.

Petitioners, defendants below, filed their notice of taking the deposition of Dietmar Slonek, a resident of Germany, and requested his appearance in Orlando, Florida for that purpose. Slonek filed a motion for protective order alleging, among other things, that: 1) he is a citizen of…