No. SB 738
Filed under Legal.
Virtual Currency Transfers; Providing that requests by a defendant, regardless of location, to residents of this state to transfer virtual currency to an account located outside of this state subjects the defendant to the jurisdiction of the state courts, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFlorida's long-arm statute already lets courts hear any case against a defendant with substantial, ongoing activity in the state, even when the lawsuit has nothing to do with that activity.
Asking a Florida resident to send virtual currency to an out-of-state account now counts as that kind of substantial activity, no matter where the person making the request is located.
That means a single such request can expose the requester to a Florida lawsuit over any claim, not only one connected to the virtual currency transfer itself.
The provision does not require the request to be fraudulent, so it could reach an ordinary business transaction just as easily as a virtual-currency scam.
AIA request by any defendant, no matter where they are located, asking a Florida resident to transfer virtual currency to an account outside Florida now counts as substantial activity in the state, giving Florida courts personal jurisdiction over that defendant.