Sanders Farm of Ocala, Inc. v. Bay Area Truck Sales, Inc., Case No. 2D16-819 (Fla. 2d DCA 2017).
Stopping payment on a check, even if payment is stopped after receiving goods or services, is not conclusively an act of fraud.
940 Lincoln Road Associates LLC v. 940 Lincoln Road Enterprises, Inc.,Case No. 3D16-2748 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017).
A party cannot avoid the writing requirement of the statute of frauds by reformulating what
amounts to a breach of an oral contract claim into a fraud claim. Additionally, a buyer that chooses, in accordance with the following contractual provision, to receive the return of its deposit as its exclusive remedy is not entitled to bring an action for breach of contract:
[Buyerhas]the right to terminate this Agreement and receive the return of the Deposit, or (ii)[has] the right to have all remedies at law and in equity, including, withoutlimitation, specific performance . . . .