JETSTREAM INTERNATIONAL, LLC
v.
STUDENT TRAVEL SERVICES, LLC, ETC.

Fla. 3d DCA | 2021-02-24
No. 20-0001
Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2021)

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Holding

A contractual choice-of-law provision is presumptively valid and will be enforced unless applying the chosen jurisdiction's law would contravene a strong public policy of Florida.


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[1] A contractual choice-of-law provision is presumptively valid and enforceable unless application of the chosen jurisdiction's law would contravene a strong public policy o…

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“An agreement between parties to be bound by the substantive laws of another jurisdiction is presumptively valid, and this Court will enforce a choice-of-law provision unless applying the chosen forum's law would contravene a strong public policy of this State.”

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Jetstream International and others appealed a lower court judgment in a dispute involving Student Travel Services. The parties had agreed to be bound …

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Se. Floating Docks, Inc. v. Auto-Owners Ins. Co., 82 So. 3d 73, 80 (Fla. 2012) (“An agreement between parties to be bound by the substantive laws of another jurisdiction is presumptively valid, and this Court will enforce a choice-of-law provision unless applying the chosen forum’s law would contravene a strong public policy of this State.”); Burroughs Corp. v. Suntogs of Miami, Inc., 472 So. 2d 1166, 1169 (Fla. 1985) (concluding the contractual provision applying another state’s law regarding the limitations period was not contrary to a strong public policy); see also Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150 (Fla. 1979).


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