Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, Inc. v. Bacjet, LLC

Whether Florida can exercise personal jurisdiction over an Oklahoma lender, whose subject loan is secured by homestead property in Florida is the question we must decide. A creditor of the Florida resident argues the trial court erred in determining that Florida did not have personal jurisdiction over the Oklahoma lender. We agree and reverse.

The creditor, Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, obtained a $7,200,000 judgment against an individual (“debtor”) in a dispute arising in Florida. The debtor lives in, and claims homestead on, his Florida home. The judgment was recorded in August 2014, in…