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MACRO CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Florida corporation Rafael Resort Investors, L.P., a Delaware Limited Partnership Rafael Group, Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company Georg A. Rafael, individually Rafael Hotels Asia, Limited, a Hong Kong company Rafael Hotels, Limited, a British Virgin Islands company Rafael Hotels, Ltd. (USA), a New York corporation and Resort Investors Limited, a British Virgin Islands company v. THE SOFFER GROUP, by and, through its Managing Partner, Donald M. SOFFER
SHEVIN, Judge.
We grant Macro-Capital Corporation’s petition for writ of certiorari, and quash the portions of the trial court’s order that reserve jurisdiction over discovery as the cause proceeds in arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act. The court departed from the essential requirements of law in making such a reservation. Suarez-Valdez v. Shearson Lehman/American Express, Inc., 858 F.2d 648, 649 (11th Cir. 1988); see § 382.03(3), Fla. Stat. (2002); Greenstein v. Baxas Howell Mobley, Inc., 583 So.2d 402, 403 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991).
Certiorari granted; order quashed in part.