HARP V. LEINS

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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DISPOSED OF. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA THIRD DISTRICT JULY TERM, A.D. 2006 THE HARP GROUP, INC., Appellant, vs. ** ** ** HELMUT W. LEINS, Appellee. CASE NO. 3D06-2242 ** LOWER TRIBUNAL NO. 06-15804 ** Opinion filed December 13, 2006. An Appeal from a Non-Final Order of the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Gisela Cardonne Ely, Judge. DLA Piper U.S. LLP and Ronald S. Holliday and S. Douglas Knox (Tampa) and James R. Nelson, (Dallas, Texas) and Jennifer A. Lloyd (Austin, Texas), for appellant. Holland & Knight LLP and Wilfredo A. Rodriguez and Martha R. Mora and Frances F. Guasch, for appellee. Before RAMIREZ and LAGOA, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. PER CURIAM. The appellee s motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction below was granted without an evidentiary hearing on the ground that the court lacked erroneous since the jurisdiction. court possessed This both was subject clearly matter jurisdiction of a proceeding for injunction, see Sirgany Int l, Inc. v. Miami-Dade County, 887 So. 2d 381, 383 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004), and personal jurisdiction over through personal service in Florida. therefore reversed and the the defendant-appellee The order on appeal is preliminary injunction reinstated forthwith pending a full hearing on the merits of the motion to dissolve the injunction. Reversed. 2

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