Regions Financial Corp. v. Mercenari

I respectfully dissent. This is an appeal by Regions Bank of a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court order denying the Bank’s motion to transfer this case to the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Bay County, Florida, filed pursuant to Florida’s statutory forum non-conveniens provision, section 47.122 of the Florida Statutes (2010). I would reverse the order of the trial court.

This case arises out of an ill-fated decision by two Miami-Dade County residents, Carlos Mercenari and Guillermo Romo, to place pre-construction purchase deposits on three units in a beachfront condominium in Panama City…