Townhouses at Jacaranda Condominium Ass'n v. Crain Atlantis Engineering, Inc.

We reverse the trial court’s order of dismissal of appellant’s case, which the court dismissed because appellant had failed to attach certain exhibits to its second amended complaint within the time allowed by the original order requiring their attachment.1

*570Dismissal was improper' because the trial court failed to articulate findings warranting the extreme sanction of dismissal for this procedural error. See Kozel v. Ostendorf, 629 So.2d 817, 818 (Fla. 1994); Buroz-Henriquez v. De Buroz, 19 So.3d 1140, 1141-42 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009).

Moreover, the court’s choice to dismiss the case, rather than…