Vellanti v. Piper Aircraft Corp.

SCHWARTZ, Judge.

The order transferring venue of this cause from Dade to Collier County is reversed. As demonstrated by the sheriff’s return of service — which is presumptively correct1 and has not been challenged — the defendant Piper Aircraft Corporation, a foreign corporation, was served through a corporate agent it had designated for that purpose in Dade County. It is therefore clear that venue was properly laid in Dade County under the portion of Section 47.051, Florida Statutes (1979) which provides that “[a]ctions against foreign corporations doing business in this state shall be…