Terugoshi Kotoura a/k/a Katsura Kan v. Tibor Stern, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sharon Stern

We reverse in part the trial court’s order denying appellant’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and remand for the trial court to conduct a limited evidentiary hearing on jurisdictional issues.

Appellant, the defendant below, is a Japanese national, who has never been to the Florida. In the amended complaint, plaintiff has alleged long arm .jurisdiction based on defendant’s communications with the decedent while she was in Broward County. See § ,48.193(1)(a)2., Fla. Stat. (2015). The law is clear that a defendant need not be physically present in Florida for long arm…