Western Surety Company v. Manheim Remarketing, Inc.

SIXTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ Case No. 6D2025-3170 Lower Tribunal No. 2024-CA-001492 _____________________________ WESTERN SURETY COMPANY, Appellant, v. MANHEIM REMARKETING, INC., Appellee. _____________________________ Appeal from the Circuit Court for Polk County. Jennifer A. Swenson, Judge. November 6, 2026 PER CURIAM. AFFIRMED. See Dealers Ins. Co., Inc. v. Centennial Cas. Co., 644 So. 2d 571, 572-73 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994) (holding motor vehicle auction operator “was a ‘person in a wholesale transaction who suffered a loss as a result of the failure of the dealer to comply with the conditions of its written contract’ entitled to recover under the bond” (footnote omitted)), disapproved of on other grounds, Nichols v. Preferred Nat’l Ins. Co., 704 So. 2d 1371, 1373-74 (Fla. 1997); see also Dealers Ins. Co., Inc. v. Fla. Auto Auction of Orlando, 646 So. 2d 299 (Mem.) (Fla. 5th DCA 1994) (“The legal issues in this case are indistinguishable from those in Dealers Insurance Company v. Centennial Casualty Co., 644 So. 2d 571 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994). Accordingly, we affirm the judgment, . . . .”). MIZE, BROWNLEE and KAMOUTSAS, JJ., concur. Elizabeth A. Pearce and Matthew G. Davis, of Paskert Divers Thompson, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant. Val Leppert and Ross Linzer, of King & Spalding LLP, Miami, for Appellee. Zoe Beiner, of King & Spalding LLP, Washington, D.C., Pro Hac Vice, for Appellee. NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED 2