Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. HB 917, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/07/2012 08:59 AM       .                                
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       Senator Bogdanoff moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 83 and 84
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (1) of
    6  section 48.193, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         48.193 Acts subjecting person to jurisdiction of courts of
    8  state.—
    9         (1) Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of
   10  this state, who personally or through an agent does any of the
   11  acts enumerated in this subsection thereby submits himself or
   12  herself and, if he or she is a natural person, his or her
   13  personal representative to the jurisdiction of the courts of
   14  this state for any cause of action arising from the doing of any
   15  of the following acts:
   16         (i) Ordering or requiring a person incorporated or having
   17  its principal place of business in this state to act as a
   18  collection agent to collect monetary payments from another
   19  person, whether or not such person is a resident of this state,
   20  unless the parties have otherwise agreed by contract. The courts
   21  of this state shall limit the application of, refuse to enforce,
   22  or enjoin any such requirements that are inequitable,
   23  impracticable, or impossible.
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   25  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   26         And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 11
   28  and insert:
   29         courts of this state; amending s. 48.193, F.S.;
   30         including as an additional basis for subjecting a
   31         person to the jurisdiction of the courts of this
   32         state, a provision which states that a person submits
   33         to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state by
   34         entering into a contract that designates the law of
   35         this state as the law governing the contract and that
   36         contains a provision by which such person agrees to
   37         submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of this
   38         state; amending s. 55.502, F.S.;