Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed May 31, 2017.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D16-1543
Lower Tribunal No. 14-6119
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Jorge Salinas,
Appellant,
vs.
Martin Mobarak, etc., et al.,
Appellees.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jacqueline
Hogan Scola, Judge.
Beasley, Demos & Brown, LLC, and Joseph W. Beasley and Jennifer Perez
Alonso, for appellant.
Shapiro, Blasi, Wasserman & Hermann, P.A., and Jeffrey A. Sarrow (Boca
Raton), for appellee Martin Mobarak.
Before LAGOA, SCALES and LUCK, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Appellant, plaintiff below, Jorge Salinas appeals the trial court’s involuntary
dismissal of Salinas’s claims. We affirm because the evidence adduced at trial by
Salinas failed to establish any of the causes of action Salinas asserted against
Appellee, defendant below, Martin Mobarak. Kopel vs. Kopel, 117 So. 3d 1147,
1152 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013), rev’d on other grounds, No. SC13-992 (Fla. Jan. 26,
2017) (explaining that, to establish unjust enrichment claim, evidence of plaintiff
conferring direct benefit upon defendant required); Beers vs. Beers, 724 So. 2d
109, 116-17 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (stating that imposition of constructive trust
requires evidence of fiduciary relationship or evidence that defendant took
unconscionable advantage of plaintiff); Edd Helms Elec. Contracting, Inc. v.
Barnett Bank of S. Fla., N.A., 531 So. 2d 238, 238 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988) (holding
that equitable lien unavailable when contract remedies are adequate).
Affirmed.
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Salinas v. Mobarak
Combined Opinion