The opinion
UMNIIDTEDDL ES TDAISTTERS IDCITS TORFI FCLTO CROIDUART
TAMPA DIVISION
Versea Diagnostics, LLC,
Plaintiff,
v. CASE NO. 8:24-cv-01237-SDM-CPT
SOS Abundabox LLC et al,
Defendants.
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ORDER
Alleging fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, and
breach of contract, Versea Diagnostics, LLC sues (Doc. 34) SOS Abundabox LLC,
Summit Services, Inc., Emily Jones, and Kirk Oetken. Summit Services moves (Doc.
46) to dismiss the complaint under Rule 12(b)(2), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
for lack of personal jurisdiction. Versea responds (Doc. 66) and Summit Servies re-
plies. (Doc. 73)
Jones and Oetken (“the executives”) are Colorado citizens and officers of both
Abundabox and Summit Services. (Doc. 34 at ¶¶ 5-6) Both Abundabox and Summit
Services have their principal place of business in Colorado, with Abundabox incor-
porated in Wyoming and Summit Services incorporated in California. (Doc. 34 at ¶¶
3-4) Versea is a Florida-based company incorporated in Delaware. (Doc. 34 at ¶ 2)
In June 2023, the executives, on behalf of Abundabox, solicited investments
from a Versea board member during a dinner in Florida. (Doc. 34 at ¶ 11) Following
a series of phone calls and emails1 between Versea and the executives, during which
they misrepresented the profitability of Abundabox, Versea invited the executives
back to Florida in August 2023, where the executives delivered a Power Point
presentation containing additional misrepresentations to Versea’s management team.
(Doc. 34 at ¶¶ 12-20) This Power Point repeatedly bears the name and trademark of
both Abundabox and “Summit One Source,” which is the trade name of Summit
Services. Specifically, the appellation “Summit One Source” is found at the follow-
ing locations in the Power Point:
• The first slide, which reads “Summit One Source presents Health Pack by
Abundabox™.”
• The bottom right corner of slides 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and
19, which bear the logo of Summit One Source.
• Slide 17, the top of which features the same logo.
• The bottom of every slide in the Power Point, which reads “Confidential.
Copyright Summit One Source 2023.” (Doc. 34-1)
Following this meeting, Versea entered into a series of business agreements
with Abundabox. (Doc. 34 at ¶¶ 26-27) Although the written contracts (Doc. 34-
3; Doc. 50) formally established Abundabox as Versea’s business partner, Summit
Services, operating as Summit One Source, participated in the transactions
1 The executives sent these emails from accounts associated with Summit Services.
contemplated by the contracts. This is revealed by the following exhibits to the
amended complaint:
• An August 25, 2023, invoice for $180,000 of goods purchased by Versea for
delivery to Summit One Source.
• A September 21, 2023, invoice exceeding $68,000 for goods purchased by
Versea for delivery to Summit One Source.
• A September 22, 2023, invoice exceeding $97,000 for goods purchased by
Versea for delivery to Summit One Source.
• Two invoices dated September 27 and 29, 2023, each for $48,000 of goods
purchased by Versea for delivery to Summit One Source.
• Three bills of lading dated August 28, September 1, and September 5 2023,
billed to Versea for shipment to Summit One Source.
• A UPS “shipment receipt’ dated September 18, 2023, and stating that Ver-
sea shipped 24 packages, each weighing 25 pounds, to Summit One
Source. (Doc. 34-2)
After repeated failure by the defendants to pay as required by the contract,
Versea brought this action. (Doc. 34 at ¶¶ 36-37)
Florida's long-arm statute provides that a defendant becomes subject to spe-
cific jurisdiction under Section 48.193(1)(a)(1) if the defendant “engag[es] in a busi-
ness or business venture” in Florida; under Section 48.193(1)(a)(2) if the defendant,
even if physically outside Florida, commits a tort within Florida; and under Section
48.193(1)(a)(7) if the defendant breaches a contract in Florida by failing to perform
acts required “to be performed in Florida.” Specific yurisdiction “requires a causal
connection between the defendant's activities in Florida and the plaintiff's cause of
action.” Stonepeak Partners, LP v. Tall Tower Cap., LLC, 231 So. 3d 548, 552 (Fla. 2d
DCA 2017).
Although contradicting Versea’s amended complaint in certain particulars, the
defendant questions the authenticity of neither the invoices nor the Power Point
slides. “[C]onstru[ing] all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff,” these docu-
ments establish personal jurisdiction over Summit Services by revealing the close re-
lation between Summit Services and Abundabox and at least hundreds of thousands
of dollars in transactions between Summit Services and Versea during the contract.
Posner v. Essex Ins. Co., 178 F.3d 1209, 1215 (11th Cir. 1999).
The defendant’s motion is DENIED.
ORDERED in Tampa, Florida, on September 22, 2025.
STEVEND.MERRYDAY □□
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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