Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...First, they point to Florida’s statutory scheme governing service on foreign corporations. Florida Statutes § 48.091 requires every foreign corporation that transacts business in Florida to “designate a registered agent and registered office in accordance with part I of chapter 607.” Florida Statutes § 607.15101(1) in turn provides that a foreign corporation’s registered agent “is the corporation’s agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the foreign corporation.” Finally, Florida St...

...production, Ulloa,4 argued that by maintaining an agent in compliance with Florida’s business registration provisions the out-of-state corporation could be compelled by subpoena to produce documents. The Court disagreed. It explained that §§ 48.091, 48.081, and 607.15101—the same statutes the Waites rely on here—“simply requir[e] an out-of-state corporation doing business in this state to have a designated person or entity authorized to accept the delivery of a summons [or] complaint.” Id....

...For ease of discussion, we will refer to only one of those defendants, Ulloa. 27  Case: 16-15569 Date Filed: 08/23/2018 Page: 28 of 29 supports the meaning evident from the statutes’ plain text: §§ 48.081, 48.091, and 607.15101 “are directed only to service of process.” Id....

...2d DCA 1996). Here, it is undisputed that when the circuit court entered the September 10 order, Synchron had not been served in accordance either with section 48.081, Florida Statutes (1997), governing service of process on corporations generally, or with section 607.15101, Florida Statutes (1997), relating to service of process on foreign corporations....

...on under s. 48.091.” § 48.081(3)(a), Fla. Stat. (2010); see also § 48.181(2), Fla. Stat. (2010) (“If a foreign corporation has a resident agent or officer in the state, process shall be served on the resident agent or officer.”). Pursuant to section 607.15101(1), Florida Statutes (2010), “[t]he registered agent of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state is the corporation’s agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be...