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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 55
JUDGMENTS
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55.606 Personal jurisdiction.The out-of-country foreign judgment shall not be refused recognition for lack of personal jurisdiction if:
(1) The defendant was served personally in the foreign state;
(2) The defendant voluntarily appeared in the proceedings, other than for the purpose of protecting property seized or threatened with seizure in the proceedings or of contesting the jurisdiction of the court over him or her;
(3) The defendant, prior to the commencement of the proceedings, had agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the foreign court with respect to the subject matter involved;
(4) The defendant was domiciled in the foreign state when the proceedings were instituted, or, being a body corporate, had its principal place of business, was incorporated, or had otherwise acquired corporate status, in the foreign state;
(5) The defendant had a business office in the foreign state and the proceedings in the foreign court involved a cause of action or a claim for relief arising out of business done by the defendant through that office in the foreign state; or
(6) The defendant operated a motor vehicle or airplane in the foreign state and the proceedings involved a cause of action or claim for relief arising out of such operation.
History.s. 6, ch. 94-239; s. 1360, ch. 95-147; s. 9, ch. 2005-241.

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Cases Citing Statute 55.606

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Chabert v. Bacquie, 694 So. 2d 805 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997).

Cited 20 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1997 WL 245192

...*812 Hence, if Chabert is correct that the French court lacked personal jurisdiction over him under the Hague Service Convention, then under section 55.605(1)(b) we may not accord recognition to the French judgment in this case. We also note, however, that section 55.606 of the Act further modifies the court's power to refuse recognition of a foreign judgment on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction....
...t was personally served with initial process at the commencement of the action in the French trial court. As we read these statutory provisions, the trial court could not refuse recognition for lack of personal jurisdiction under sections 55.605 and 55.606 if the personal service effected at the beginning of the legal action in the French trial court satisfied all requirements of personal service....
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Noham Kilinsky v. Bank Leumi Le-israel, Ltd (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2023).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

JJ. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See § 55.606(1)(b)(3), Fla. Stat. (2022) (providing in pertinent

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