Larry J. Hoffman, as of the Estate of E. W. Callaway, Deceased, and Bank of Commerce of Florida v. Air India

The District Judge dismissed Appellants suits (filed January 1967) against Air India for lack of jurisdiction over the person of that foreign corporation. The sole question presented is whether Florida’s long arm statute, F.S.A. §§ 47.16, 47.17, 47.171, and especially § 47.17(4),1 is long enough to subject Air India to suit in Florida on a claim which did not arise in any way out of Florida activities.2 We reverse.

Air India’s only troublesome contention is that for service of process on its resident agent to be perfected under Florida’s long arm statute the cause of action must arise out of…