Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 47.025 (2025)
Actions against contractors.
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47.025 Actions against contractors.—Any venue provision in a contract for improvement to real property which requires legal action involving a resident contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, or materialman, as defined in 1part I of chapter 713, to be brought outside this state is void as a matter of public policy. To the extent that the venue provision in the contract is void under this section, any legal action arising out of that contract shall be brought only in this state in the county where the defendant resides, where the cause of action accrued, or where the property in litigation is located, unless, after the dispute arises, the parties stipulate to another venue.
1Note.—As created by s. 9, ch. 99-225. Section 47.025 was also created by s. 1, ch. 99-386, and that version cites to s. 713.01.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2000–2025 · leading case: Kerr Const., Inc. v. Peters Contracting, Inc., 767 So. 2d 610 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).
Kerr Const., Inc. v. Peters Contracting, Inc., 767 So. 2d 610 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000). “Kerr argued that section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999), which became effective on October 1, 1999, vitiated the venue provisions of the subcontract and, therefore, venue properly lay in Orange County, Florida where the work under the subcontract was performed.”
Sachse Constr. & Dev. Corp. v. Affirmed Drywall Corp., 251 So. 3d 1005 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018). “Sachse appeals a nonfinal order determining that the arbitration clause in the Subcontract is void and unenforceable because it requires arbitration in Michigan of a contract dispute relating to the improvement of real property in Florida, in violation of section 47.025, Florida…”
Presidential Hosp., LLC v. Wyndham Hotel Grp., LLC, 333 F. Supp. 3d 1179 (D.N.M. 2018). “15, (2002) ("Although absent legislative history, [ Fla. Stat. § 47.025 ] apparently resulted from the lobbying of the contracting community increasingly opposed to going out of state to resolve disputes involving projects in a rapidly growing Florida.”
SAI Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Applied Sys., Inc., 858 So. 2d 401 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003). “We cannot avoid noting, as the trial court undoubtedly did, that the forum selection clause in the present case is broader than the clause involved in Management Computer.”
Mann Utils., Inc. v. WLM Contracting, Inc. (M.D. Fla. 2024). “Mann argues the forum selection clause is invalid under § 47.025, Florida Statutes (2024), and should not be enforced because it is contrary to Florida’s public policy.”
Hannah Dev., LLC v. Maverick Gen. Contractors, LLC (Tenn. Ct. App. 2025). “McDowell did not carry their burden of demonstrating that holding them accountable for their alleged wrongdoing in Tennessee courts would be unfair, unreasonable, and inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States 4 While the Defendants also cite a Florida…”
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