May 2022
Owner’s Rep — Cobia / Seakeeper global resolution
Stratmann brokers SK2 warranty + SK35 purchase path; Ivankovich is an active commercial participant, not a passive victim.
W2579 · Dual-Track Comparison · Public docket facts
SYG vs CMR vs KJM — Overlapping Timeline
Side-by-side rails with overlapping center bands so concurrent moves read as one story: Florida Starboard Yacht Group (SYG) ↔ Contessa Marine Research (CMR), then Dubai CMR / Ivankovich ↔ KJM Marine LLC (working alias KMG). The formation hinge is the 15 Dec 2022 TRIP / Tripp Hotel full-day JV pitch — Steve’s capital + SYG expertise, with shared counsel Moore & Co. (Michael Moore & Caycie Flitman).
SYG rail
CMR rail
KJM / KMG rail
Overlap / shared event
Pillar — TRIP / Tripp Hotel JV Day (15 Dec 2022)
Steven Ivankovich hosted a whole-day meeting at TRIP with the SYG team present. He laid out the plan to combine his capital resources with SYG’s expertise and businesses into a joint venture, with Moore & Company, P.A. — Michael T. Moore and Caycie Blake Flitman — framed as the venture’s shared counsel.
That formation posture later inverts: the same firm prosecutes CMR’s counterclaim against SYG, holds the $400K substitute security that frees Octopussy for Dubai departure, then withdraws (DE 243). Parallel capital is also deployed into the KJM / KJI Dubai JVA (20 Mar 2023) — creating the dual-JV contradiction this page visualizes.
Bates CMR-THREATS-000073 (Meeting at TRIP 12152022) · CMR-THREATS-000076/000077 · W2578 lock · DIFC media locators withheld (W2510) · Counsel: Moore & Co. · Caycie Flitman
Bates & milestone pins (W2580)
Working pins for overlap bands — public cites only; sealed media stays in W2582 vault.
000076 · 2022-09-13
Moore directing SYG requests — pre-TRIP ops control.
000077 · 2022-10-26+
Moore & Co. combined communications — JV counsel chain.
000073 · 2022-12-15
TRIP full-day — capital + expertise + shared counsel.
000074 · 2023-01-30
Duty paid by SYG — Joe / Caycie / Jake post-TRIP ops.
JVA · 2023-03-20
KJM / KJI Dubai manufacturing JV — second capital track.
Bond · Sep 2023
$400K Moore IOTA → Octopussy release / Dubai theater.
DE 243 · 2025-09-19
Moore / Flitman / firm withdraw from CMR docket.
CFI 068 · 2025-03-26
Anti-suit + $144K costs vs KJM (public judgment).
Board 1 — SYG vs CMR (Florida)
Capital + expertise JV → admiralty arrest → counterclaim inversion → default / enforcement cluster.
SYG
CMR / Ivankovich
Overlap
SYG — Expertise / Ops
Summer 2022
Octopussy arrives for hybrid refit
SYG deploys global team / Lightspeed ops — the expertise Steve later pitches to co-venture with.
Sep 1–6, 2023
SYG arrests M/V Octopussy; substitute custodian
0:23-cv-61696 — SYG is original plaintiff enforcing maritime lien for necessaries.
2024–2026
Distress / default / parallel seizures
DE 287 default on inverted counterclaim; Seakeeper termination; Slow UR Roll II foreclosure pressure.
Overlap
Sep 13 → Dec 15, 2022
Moore/Flitman enter as JV counsel → TRIP full-day pitch
Capital + expertise + shared counsel locked same winter as Octopussy work.
2022–2023
IMG / Contessa funding rails through Moore desk
Approvals, duty, “audit” assignments — JV ops, not arm’s-length vendor fight.
Sep 2023
$400K bond in Moore & Co. IOTA → vessel released
Same counsel who sat the JV day hold substitute security for asset flight.
Counterclaim era
Same docket inverted: “CMR v. SYG”
Formation partners become adverse litigants; Moore/Flitman prosecute then withdraw.
CMR — Capital / Contessa
Aug 2021 / active 2022
Seacoast $2.015M Contessa loan on Octopussy
Debt capital already attached to the vessel before / during SYG refit.
Dec 15, 2022
TRIP Hotel — all-day JV event
Steve pitches capital + SYG businesses; Moore & Caycie F. present as shared counsel.
Post-arrest 2023+
Counterclaim + Betty “audit” narrative
Overfunding theory engineered after JV ops; Flitman mischaracterizes SYG as pure PM pass-through.
Sep 19, 2025
Moore & Co. withdraw (DE 243)
Michael Moore / Caycie Flitman removed; charging-lien / conflict residue follows.
Formation ask
Steve’s capital resources + SYG expertise/businesses → joint venture with shared Moore & Co. counsel.
Litigation posture
SYG enforces lien; CMR inverts docket via counterclaim while Contessa capital story flips to “victim.”
Counsel arc
JV counsel → adverse counsel → IOTA bond holder → withdrawal / later named in CJS enterprise complaint.
Board 2 — CMR vs KJM / KMG (Dubai)
Second capital partnership — JVA manufacturing deal — then triangular suit pattern against the Dubai partner while Florida war continues.
CMR / Ivankovich
KJM Marine (KMG)
Overlap
CMR / Ivankovich
Mar 20, 2023
JVA — premium leisure vessels via KJI
Ivankovich capital into Dubai manufacturing JV (KJI Marina Boats Manufacturing LLC) with KJM.
Oct 2023
Neirah POs — 20× Arrow 320
Purchase-order scale shows active international commerce during Octopussy Florida dispute.
2024
CFI 068 + CFI 091 filings
Personal + Contessa claims against KJM — same controller, second partner sued.
Jun 17, 2026
CFI 091 hearing (Justice Black)
Public docket fact only. Hearing media locators withheld for deposition strategy (W2510).
Overlap
Mar 2023
Dual JV season
Florida SYG JV residue + Dubai KJM JVA run in parallel under same capital controller.
2023–2024
Octopussy → Dubai after $400K bond
Florida enforcement asset relocates into the same Dubai commercial theater as KJM.
Triangle
CMR v SYG · Ivankovich v KJM · CMR v KJM
One enterprise, three partner wars — Florida contractor + Dubai dealer/manufacturer.
Mar 26, 2025
Anti-suit injunction + $144K costs
DIFC restrains KJM parallel Dubai Courts action under JVA exclusive jurisdiction.
KJM Marine (KMG)
2023
Dubai dealership / JVA partner
KJM + KJI manufacturing vehicle for Arrow 320 global distribution plan.
Nov 20, 2024
Parallel Dubai Courts proceedings
Later characterized by DIFC as vexatious / oppressive vs exclusive JVA clause.
CFI 068 / 091
Defendant in Ivankovich + Contessa actions
Mirror of Florida pattern: JV partner becomes litigation target after capital deployment.
Mar 26, 2025
Anti-suit restraint; indemnity costs
USD $144,684.78 costs on indemnity basis with judgment interest.
Same playbook
Pitch capital partnership → deploy → dispute → sue the operating partner (SYG in Florida; KJM in Dubai).
Shared vehicle
Contessa Marine Research appears on both the Florida counterclaim track and DIFC CFI 091.
Visual takeaway
Overlap bands show the two wars are not accidents of venue — they are concurrent enterprise moves.
Sources: public PACER / DIFC judgments / Bates CMR-THREATS-000073 et al. · Internal lock W2578 · Contessa CFI 091 hearing media locators intentionally omitted (W2510 Joe Seinitz deposition hold). Alias: KMG = KJM Marine LLC.