Mealey's (February 1, 2017, 1:16 PM EST) -- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida federal judge on Jan. 30 remanded to state court a dispute over whether a contract between a diagnostic imaging services company and an insurer qualifies as a “franchise” under the Federal Trade Commission Franchise Rule because a defendant did not show by a preponderance of the evidence that the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional threshold of $75,000 (MRI Scan Center LLC v. National Imaging Associates Inc., et al., No. 16-cv-61738, S.D. Fla., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12356)....