FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, PETITIONER,
v.
ALFREDO FEO, ROSA PEREZ, ET AL., RESPONDENTS
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The court held that the trial court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the FDUTPA claims because the Florida Public Service Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the activity at issue.
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) petitioned for a writ of prohibition to prevent the trial court from proceeding on a Florida Deceptive and Unfair …
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Florida Power & Light Company [“FPL”] petitions for a writ of prohibition to prevent the trial court from proceeding on a Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, §§ 501.201 — .213, Fla. Stat. (2009) [“FDUTPA”], claim brought against it by the respondents. We grant prohibition and remand the case with directions that this claim in the complaint be dismissed.1
FPL is correct when it asserts that the circuit court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the FDUTPA claims. Section 501.212(5), Florida Statutes (2009), creates a specific exception from suit under that Act for “[a]ny activity regulated under laws administered by the Florida Public Service Commission.” The Resident Building Envelope Program giving rise to the complaint is an incentive program approved and governed by the Florida Public Service Commission [“PSC”]. Fla. Admin. Code R. 25-17.0021 (granting PSC authority to establish conservation goals for utilities and to oversee/regulate progress in meeting same). Therefore, the PSC has exclusive jurisdiction over this matter. See § 366.04, Fla. Stat. (2009); Extraordinary Title Servs., LLC v. Fla. Power & Light Co., 1 So.3d 400 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009). Dismissal of the FDUTPA claim is appropriate.
Petition granted; cause remanded.
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