Horizon Aggressive Growth, L.P. v. Rothstein-Kass, P.A.

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to address whether Florida’s Long-Arm statute, Fla. Stat. ch. 48.193, permits the assertion of in personam jurisdiction over an out-of-state auditing company that, in the negotiation of contracts and in the rendition of services from its out-of-state office, tele-phonically contacted a Florida-based partnership and electronically accessed its computer files. The district court found that Defendants-appellees Rothstein Kass & Co., P.C. and related entities 1 neither were “doing business in Florida” nor committed a tortious act in Florida as defined…