Florida Statute 680.1061 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIX
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

Chapter 680
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE: LEASES

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680.1061 Limitation on power of parties to consumer lease to choose applicable law and judicial forum.—

(1) If the law chosen by the parties to a consumer lease is that of a jurisdiction other than a jurisdiction in which the lessee resides at the time the lease agreement becomes enforceable or within 30 days thereafter or in which the goods are to be used or in which the lease is executed by the lessee, the choice is not enforceable.

(2) If the judicial forum chosen by the parties to a consumer lease is a forum that would not otherwise have jurisdiction over the lessee, the choice is not enforceable.

History.—s. 1, ch. 90-278.

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Taurus Stornoway Investments, LLC v. Kerley, 38 So. 3d 840 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 8938, 2010 WL 2472487

...r the parties agree to a different forum outside the state. But this is not what the statute says. Had it been the Legislature's intent to prohibit or limit such agreements in the LLC context, it could easily have done so, as it did, for example, in section 680.1061(2), Florida Statutes: "If the judicial forum chosen by the parties to a consumer lease is a forum that would not otherwise have jurisdiction over the lessee, the choice is not enforceable." Obviously, the legislature knows precisely how to prohibit the enforcement of forum selection clauses....

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