The ride is owned by Reithoffer Rides, a Florida-based firm that had 35 of the 45 rides at the fair.

In 2012, the National Law Journal ranked the firm as 90th largest in the U.S. by number of attorneys, and the largest Florida-based firm.

Now Criteria of Naples, the Florida-based firm that designed and installed Mr. Williams's $270,000 audiovisual system, is overseeing the construction of a permanent large-screen outdoor setup, likely to cost $30,000.

The judge has been handling a vast securities fraud case involving A. S. Goldmen, a Florida-based firm now out of business, since Mr. Winkler, who was its chief financial officer, and 32 others associated with the firm were indicted last summer.

Elway had the original idea to form a sports and recreation e-commerce site with a Florida-based firm.

American businessman and philanthropist James Herbert Dahl (born August 16, 1953) is the founder and former chairman of Rock Creek Capital, a Jacksonville, Florida-based firm that provides investment services centered on acquiring and managing land in an environmentally responsible manner.

He joined D.L. Cromwell, a Florida-based firm that had just opened an office in Manhattan's financial district.

In November, after losing in the semifinal round of the Women's Tennis Association Championships to Kim Clijsters, the elder Williams sister donned an ivory silk strapless dress and held a press conference to announce that she was starting a Florida-based interior-design firm called V Starr Interiors.

Last week, Venezuela fired its American lawyers, the Florida-based firm of Ruden McClosky.