How do you serve a dba? (Florida civil lawsuit)

[lurningcerv]

This is a Florida civil lawsuit. I've seen captions in which the name of the natural person is just followed by the dba. If you allege in the complaint that the person does business under an unregistered fictitious business name, can you then just personally serve the person, and the court automatically gets jurisdiction over the dba? What if, at some point after the action begins, or even after the judgment is issued, the dba is found to be an actual formal corporation? If you have a judgment that shows the dba name, is it any good against the corporation?

[Friend In Court]

Originally Posted by lurningcerv This is a Florida civil lawsuit. I've seen captions in which the name of the natural person is just followed by the dba. If you allege in the complaint that the person does business under an unregistered fictitious business name, can you then just personally serve the person, and the court automatically gets jurisdiction over the dba? What if, at some point after the action begins, or even after the judgment is issued, the dba is found to be an actual formal corporation? If you have a judgment that shows the dba name, is it any good against the corporation?

Give the exact wording of the heading of the lawsuit. That is the only way one can tell definitively who is being sued.