A federal district court in Fort Lauderdale dismissed a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit brought by visitors to a website belonging to Whirlpool Corp., an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances.

Alfred Saikali and Jennifer McLoone, partners at Shook Hardy & Bacon in Miami who represented Whirlpool in the class action, said that this is the first ruling by a federal court in the Sunshine State on the latest trend in nationwide privacy litigation.