LARA’S CABLING V. FINANCIAL EXCHANGE

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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2011 Opinion filed March 09, 2011. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D10-2016 Lower Tribunal No. 10-9867 ________________ Lara's Cabling Corp., et al., Appellant, vs. Financial Exchange Network, Appellee. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Lawrence A. Schwartz, Judge. Brian Barakat, for appellant. Dorta & Ortega, Giselle Hugues and Omar Ortega, for appellee. Before, SHEPHERD and LAGOA, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. PER CURIAM. This appeal filed on July 28, 2010 from an order dated June 14, 2010, which denied appellant s verified motion to set aside a previously entered default judgment is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction as untimely. Although appellant filed a motion for reconsideration of the order on June 24, 2010, which was denied on July 14, 2010, that motion was unauthorized and therefore did not toll the 30day appeal time. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.130(a)(5); Francisco v. Victoria Marine Shipping, Inc., 486 So. 2d 1386 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986), review denied, 494 So. 2d 1153 (Fla. 1986); see also Bastida v. Vitaver, 590 So. 2d 1092 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991). Appeal dismissed. 2

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