Suing a business from another state

Jurisdiction simply means a court's power to hear and decide a case. The U.S. and New York state constitutions, as well as both the federal and state laws, grant and limit courts' jurisdiction.

Your post is short on the necessary details. Yours is a question of jurisdiction. It could take a lot of fact investigation and some time doing legal research.

To make a legally binding decision, a court must have both subject matter jurisdiction (power to hear the kind of case involved) and personal jurisdiction (power over the parties involved).

In general, for the Florida business to be subject to New York personal jurisdiction, a defendant that was not personally served with process within the state must have a sufficient level of personal or business contacts with the state in which the court sits that the defendant could reasonably expect to be sued there.

In general, for the Florida business to be sued in New York for a New York federal court to have subject matter jurisdiction, Federal district courts have subject matter jurisdiction if you are suing a citizen of a different state and you are asking for at least $75,000 in money damages.

There is much more to this, so see a New York lawyer with all the necessary details.

Check with a lawyer in your locale to discuss more of the details.

Good luck to you.

God bless.

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You can file in either NY or Florida. If the contract was breached here you can sue here.