Florida Fetish Club Sues Competitor, Creating Legal Drama
Individuals in the Tampa, Fla., area for whom “airport security,” “nasty nurse” and “Mad Science ElectroPlay” role-playing fantasies are a turn-on apparently now have more than one option, as far as local fetish clubs catering to their interests are concerned.
But that’s a problem for the Largo-based Quest club, the remaining owner of which is suing his former business partner and the man who sold them the fetish facility last year, as well as the competing Phoenix club in which both defendants now are allegedly involved, reports the St. Petersburg Times.
After a falling out with his former business partner, James Jordan filed the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court suit last month. In it, he contends that the Phoenix club’s owner (his former partner, Perry Edge) and Edward Joseph Mitskevich, the man who sold the Quest club to Jordan and Edge, have violated legal obligations to him. Specifically, Jordan claims that Edge violated his duty of loyalty to his partner by creating a competing fetish club and that Mitskevich was barred from participating in Phoenix operations by noncompetition terms in the contract of sale for the Quest club.
Mitskevich’s attorney, Alan Gross, says his client—who reportedly does not have an ownership interest in the Phoenix club—has done nothing wrong. Gross also tells the newspaper that Edge quit the former partnership with Jordan before starting the new business.
Such fetish facilities are more than a business, because they serve an important need for some members of the community, says Jordan, who contends that the Quest club was on the verge of folding before he bought it for $28,000. Now, he admits, the situation has become “a drama-fest of epic proportions,” as he seeks not simply contract damages but to make his former partner and Mitskevich pay for their alleged acts of betrayal.
“This is not all about money,” he tells the Times. “It’s about right and wrong.”
