Acquadro v. Bergeron

In Acquadro v. Bergeron, 778 So. 2d 1034 (Fla. 4th DCA), the plaintiff alleged that the two defendants, while in Massachusetts, engaged in telephone conversations with persons in Florida, during which one of the defendants allegedly defamed the plaintiff and both defendants made statements that formed the basis of claims for false arrest and malicious prosecution. The Fourth District concluded that the trial court properly denied the motion to dismiss because the defendants did not deny that the telephone conversations occurred and that these telephone conversations formed the basis for personal jurisdiction. Id. The Fourth District did not decide whether the defendant had committed the torts alleged, because that would have required a full-blown trial, not the limited evidentiary hearing contemplated by Venetian Salami Co. See Acquadro, 778 So. 2d at 1035.