FINLAY CLINICS, INC. v. ABACUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., 3D04-1573.

• Decision Date: 09 March 2005
• Docket Number: No. 3D04-1573.,3D04-1573.
• Citation: 895 So.2d 1262
• Parties: FINLAY CLINICS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. ABACUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee.
• Court: Florida District Court of Appeals

895 So.2d 1262

FINLAY CLINICS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. ABACUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee.

No. 3D04-1573.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 9, 2005.

Alan C. Gold, Miami, and James L. Parado, for appellant.

Lauri Waldman Ross; Michael Schiffrin, Miami, for appellee.

Before SHEPHERD and CORTINAS, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the decision below that the transactions in question were, as a matter of law, not loans of money to which usury statutes could apply. See Perry v. Beckerman, 97 So.2d 860 (Fla.1957); Foster v. Weber, 578 So.2d 857 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). See generally Carter v. Four Seasons Funding Corp., 351 Ark. 637, 97 S.W.3d 387 (2003).