I. Introduction
Appellant Banco de los Trabajadores ("Bantrab"), the defendant below, was sued by Appellee Ricardo Rene Cortez Moreno ("Cortez"). In this non-final appeal, Bantrab seeks review of the trial court's order denying its motion to dismiss two counts of Cortez's complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the trial court's order denying Bantrab's motion to dismiss.
In November of 2015, Cortez filed a complaint against Bantrab, a Guatemalan bank, and against seven individual directors of Bantrab (the "Directors"). Cortez later filed an amended (and second amended) complaint that alleged the following twenty claims:
Counts I-VII: Assault and Battery (against the Directors);
Count VIII: Assault and Battery (against Bantrab);
Counts IX-XV: Florida RICO (against the Directors);
Count XVI: Florida RICO (against Bantrab);
Count XVII: Breach of Contract (against Bantrab);
Counts XVIII-XX: Tortious Interference with Contract (against three of the Directors)
(The counts relevant to this appeal are in bold. )
This appeal addresses only the portion of the trial court's March 14, 2017 order that found personal jurisdiction as to Bantrab,1 and only as to Counts VIII (assault and battery) and XVI (Florida RICO violations).2
*1130II. Background Facts
The second amended complaint contains the following allegations:
Bantrab is a Guatemalan corporation, with its principal place of business in Guatemala. Cortez was a citizen of Guatemala but has been a resident of Miami-Dade County since 2008, and is now a United States citizen.
In 2008, Bantrab entered into a written professional services agreement with Cortez, under which Cortez would assist in promoting and increasing Bantrab's business and business presence in Florida and the United States. Both parties further agreed to submit any type of dispute relating to the contract to the jurisdiction of the courts of Miami-Dade County.
The complaint alleges that Bantrab launched a "Bancarization project" that sought the business of Guatemalan residents who worked and lived in Florida and who sent money to their families in Guatemala. To help create and operate this business, Bantrab entered into a contract with Cortez's company, Union Expresso. To promote the Bancarization project, Bantrab sent officers and staff to Florida, set up small banking facilities ("mini-consulates") in Florida, advertised in Florida, contracted with money transfer companies based in Florida, and worked with several associate banks in Florida. Cortez acknowledged in his complaint that Bantrab's formal banking activities take place in Guatemala.
At some point, the President of the Republic of Guatemala became aware that Bantrab was allegedly involved in money laundering. He contacted Cortez and asked Cortez to investigate Bantrab's suspected money-laundering activities in Florida and elsewhere in the United States. From this point onward, as he acted upon the President's request, Cortez allegedly became a target of Bantrab and the Directors. Cortez alleges he discovered evidence that Bantrab and the Directors were participating in a large-scale conspiracy. Relevant to the jurisdictional issue presented, Cortez alleges he discovered that Bantrab and the Directors were aiding and abetting drug traffickers by laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking and transferring these proceeds to Florida through Bantrab. Further, Cortez alleges that the Directors were traveling to Florida to meet with members and representatives of drug cartels in furtherance of this unlawful activity.
When the Directors learned of Cortez's investigation, the Directors threatened Cortez that if he did not stop his investigation, leave Florida and come to Guatemala, they would ruin his substantial business in Guatemala. The Directors went to Florida to meet with Cortez in a further attempt to convince Cortez to halt his investigation and to bury his findings. When Cortez refused, Bantrab canceled its contract with Cortez's company, Union Expresso.
At that point, Cortez decided to travel to Guatemala in an attempt to reach some acceptable resolution with Bantrab. On August 20, 2009, Cortez met with the Directors but no real progress was made at that meeting. Two days later, while still in Guatemala and on his way to the airport to return to Florida, the vehicle Cortez was riding in was fired upon forty-two times, and Cortez was struck by two of the bullets. One bullet traveled through Cortez's right arm and into his chest and torso. The second bullet entered his lower back. Cortez alleges that the Directors, as agents or employees of Bantrab, hired a hitman to carry out this attack on Cortez because of Cortez's investigation into Bantrab's (and the Directors') conspiracy and money-laundering *1131activities allegedly occurring in Florida. This attempted murder formed the basis for Cortez's assault and battery claims.
III. Procedural Background
In addition to pleading these case-specific facts, Cortez's second amended complaint also tracked the statutory language of the relevant portions of Florida's long-arm jurisdiction statute ( section 48.193 of the Florida Statutes (2015) ). Cortez alleged that Bantrab was subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Florida for causes of action arising from Bantrab's alleged: (i) operating, conducting, engaging in, or carrying on a business or business venture in this state or having an office or agency in this state; (ii) committing a tortious act within this state; or (iii) engaging in substantial and not isolated activity within this state.
After the second amended complaint was filed, Bantrab filed a motion to dismiss, contending that, even accepting all of the complaint's allegations as true, those allegations, as a matter of law, fail to establish personal jurisdiction over Bantrab for the assault and battery claim and the Florida RICO claim. Bantrab opposed all jurisdictional discovery and the trial court permitted no discovery on this issue. The trial court held a non-evidentiary hearing3 on Bantrab's motion and, on March 14, 2017, entered the order on appeal that denied Bantrab's motion to dismiss, concluding that the allegations of Cortez's second amended complaint established both general and specific personal jurisdiction over Bantrab. The trial court's order, though, did dismiss, without prejudice, Cortez's Florida RICO claim against Bantrab (Count XVI), requiring Cortez to file a more definite statement. Bantrab timely appealed the jurisdictional determinations in the trial court's March 14, 2017 non-final order. We have jurisdiction. See rule 9.130(a)(3)(C)(i).4
On appeal, Bantrab contends that Cortez failed to allege sufficient jurisdictional facts to establish either general or specific jurisdiction over Bantrab, a non-resident defendant, as to the assault and battery and Florida RICO counts. Bantrab also contends that the trial court applied the incorrect standard in making its determination as to general jurisdiction.
In Florida, the appropriateness of exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant involves a two-part inquiry. The court must:
first determine whether sufficient jurisdictional facts exist to bring the action within the ambit of Florida's long-arm statute ( section 48.193 ), and then [it must] determine whether the foreign corporation possesses sufficient "minimum contacts" with Florida to satisfy federal constitutional due process requirements.
Reynolds Am., Inc. v. Gero, 56 So.3d 117, 119 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011) (citing Venetian Salami Co. v. Parthenais, 554 So.2d 499, 502 (Fla. 1989) ). Florida courts undertake the Venetian Salami inquiry by first determining whether the complaint's allegations are sufficient to bring the action within the ambit of Florida's long-arm statute. If the allegations are sufficient, the burden then shifts to the defendant to contest, via affidavit or other sworn proof, the jurisdictional allegations or whether sufficient minimum contacts exist; if properly contested, the burden then returns to the plaintiff to refute the defendant's evidence with similar sworn proof. Belz Investco Ltd. P'ship v. Groupo Immobiliano Cababie, S.A., 721 So.2d 787, 789 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998) (citations omitted).
First, we provide an overview of "general" and "specific" jurisdiction provided for in Florida's long-arm statute; then, we discuss whether Cortez's general jurisdictional allegations are sufficient under the statute as informed by recent United States Supreme Court precedent; and finally, we evaluate whether Cortez's specific jurisdictional allegations are sufficient under the statute.
A. "General" and "Specific" Jurisdiction under Florida's Long-Arm Statute
Cortez bears the initial burden of alleging sufficient allegations to bring the action within the ambit of Florida's long-arm statute, section 48.193 of the Florida Statutes. Id. at 789 ; see also Casita, L.P. v. Maplewood Equity Partners L.P., 960 So.2d 854, 856 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007). Long-arm jurisdiction under section 48.193 may be established in one of two ways: "general" jurisdiction or "specific" jurisdiction. Rautenberg v. Falz, 193 So.3d 924, 928 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). A Florida court has "general" jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant when the defendant has "engaged in substantial and not isolated activity within this state." See § 48.193(2), Fla. Stat. (2015).6 If a defendant *1133is subject to the court's "general" jurisdiction, it is unnecessary to establish "whether or not the claim arises from that activity." Id. Conversely, "specific" jurisdiction is claim-specific. A Florida court may exercise "specific" jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in those cases in which it is alleged that the nonresident defendant commits any of the specific acts enumerated in the statute in Florida, so long as the cause of action arises from that enumerated act committed in Florida. See § 48.193(1)(a) 1.-9. (Fla. Stat. (2015).7
B. General Jurisdiction
In the instant case, not only did Cortez's second amended complaint track the statutory language of the general jurisdiction provisions of Florida's long-arm statute-alleging that Bantrab "engaged in substantial and not isolated activity within this state" § 48.193(2), Fla. Stat. (2015)-Cortez also included detailed allegations that Bantrab engaged in substantial and not isolated activity within this state, including the allegations that Bantrab:
• Launched a "Bancarization project" that sought the business of Guatemalan residents who worked and lived in Florida and who sent money to their families in Guatemala.
• Sent officers and staff to Florida, set up small banking facilities ("mini-consulates") in Florida;
• Advertised in Florida, contracted with money transfer companies based in Florida, and worked with several associate banks in Florida; and *1134• Participated in a large-scale conspiracy to aid and abet drug traffickers by laundering the proceeds of this narcotics trafficking through Bantrab and through Florida financial institutions and by traveling to Florida to meet with members and representatives of drug cartels.
The trial court concluded that the allegations of the second amended complaint, which Bantrab's affidavit failed to refute specifically,8 were sufficient to establish general jurisdiction over Bantrab. The trial court found that Cortez sufficiently alleged that Bantrab engaged in "substantial and not isolated activity within this state," see section 48.193(2), which has been construed to mean a showing of "continuous and systematic general business contact" with the state. Vos, B.V. v. Payen, 15 So.3d 734, 736 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009) ; Gadea v. Star Cruises, Ltd., 949 So.2d 1143, 1145 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007) (quoting Carib-USA Ship Lines Bahamas, Ltd. v. Dorsett, 935 So.2d 1272, 1275 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) and Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, S.A. v. Hall, 466 U.S. 408, 416, 104 S.Ct. 1868, 80 L.Ed.2d 404 (1984) ); Bafitis v. Ara, 815 So.2d 702, 703 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002). We have held that the requirement of continuous and systematic general business contacts "must be 'extensive and pervasive, in that a significant portion of the defendant's business operations or revenue [are] derived from established commercial relationships in the state.' " Taylor v. Gutierrez, 129 So.3d 415, 419 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) (quoting Caiazzo v. Am. Royal Arts Corp., 73 So.3d 245, 259 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011) ) (additional citations omitted).
The constitutional due process standard, however, for determining general jurisdiction changed significantly with the United States Supreme Court's decisions in Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. 117, 134 S.Ct. 746, 187 L.Ed.2d 624 (2014), and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown, 564 U.S. 915, 131 S.Ct. 2846, 180 L.Ed.2d 796 (2011).
In Daimler, the Court held that "approv[ing] the exercise of general jurisdiction in every State in which a corporation 'engages in a substantial, continuous, and systematic course of business' ... [represents a] formulation [that is] unacceptably grasping." 134 S.Ct. at 760-61. Instead, Daimler reaffirmed the principle announced earlier in Goodyear:
[T]he inquiry under Goodyear is not whether a foreign corporation's in-forum contacts can be said to be in some sense "continuous and systematic," it is whether that corporation's "affiliations with the State are so 'continuous and systematic' as to render [it] essentially at home in the forum State."
Id. at 761 (quoting Goodyear, 564 U.S. at 919, 131 S.Ct. 2846 ).
We conclude that the trial court applied the incorrect constitutional due process standard in determining whether it could exercise general jurisdiction over Bantrab on the counts for assault and battery and Florida RICO. Although our standard of review is de novo, and while we might have the discretion to make such a determination in the first instance, we conclude it is more appropriate, on this record and under these circumstances, for the trial court *1135to make this determination in the first instance. We therefore reverse that portion of the trial court's March 14, 2017 order and, to the extent it may be necessary, remand so the trial court can apply Daimler and Goodyear in its determination of whether Cortez's operative complaint sufficiently alleges the court's general jurisdiction over Bantrab to adjudicate Cortez's assault and battery and Florida RICO claims.
C. Specific Jurisdiction
In addition to finding Cortez had adequately alleged a basis for the trial court to assert general jurisdiction over Cortez's claims under section 48.193(2), in its March 14, 2017 order, the trial court also determined that Cortez's second amended complaint provided a sufficient basis for the trial court to assert specific jurisdiction under section 48.193(1)(a) of Florida's long arm statute.
Cortez asserts that the court may exercise specific jurisdiction over Bantrab because his complaint tracks the language of sections 48.193(1)(a)(1) and (2), i.e., those provisions of Florida's long-arm statute authorizing the court to exercise specific jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant that operates a business venture in this state or commits a tort in this state. In relevant part this statute provides: "A person ... who ... does any of the acts enumerated in this subsection thereby submits himself ... to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state for any cause of action arising from ... 1. Operating, conducting, engaging in, or carrying on a business or business venture in this state .... 2. Committing a tortious act within this state ...." § 48.193(1)(a) 1.-2., Fla. Stat. (2015) (emphasis added).
Specifically, Cortez alleges that Bantrab committed a tort in Florida (the conspiracy to murder Cortez to prevent him from continuing his investigation into Bantrab's illegal activities in Florida) and that Bantrab was operating a "business" or "business venture" in Florida (the illegal money-laundering operation). Cortez contends that the assault and battery (the attempted murder in Guatemala) and the Florida RICO claims arose from tortious acts committed in Florida and from Bantrab's allegedly illegal business operations in Florida.
While sufficient allegations of general jurisdiction do not require any showing that the cause of action arises from the defendant's activity in the state (see section 48.193(2) ), those provisions of Florida's long-arm statute governing specific jurisdiction expressly require allegations both : (i) that the defendant does one of the enumerated acts within Florida, and (ii) that the plaintiff's cause of action "arise from" one of the enumerated acts occurring in Florida. See § 48.193(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2015). These dual requirements-that the defendant's conduct occur in Florida and that the plaintiff's cause of action arises from such Florida activity-are known as the statute's connexity requirement. See, e.g., Wendt, 822 So.2d at 1260 ; see generally White v. Pepsico, Inc., 568 So.2d 886 (Fla. 1990) ; Wiggins v. Tigrent, 147 So.3d 76, 87 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) ; Am. Overseas Marine Corp. v. Patterson, 632 So.2d 1124, 1127 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994).
1. Assault and Battery (Count VIII)
a. Committing a tortious act within Florida- section 48.193(1)(a)(3)
Bantrab contends that, because the assault and battery (the attempted murder) was committed in Guatemala and not in Florida, and did not cause injury to Cortez in Florida, there can be no specific jurisdiction for this claim, as the cause of action *1136is not one "arising from" a tortious act committed within the state.
Cortez acknowledges that no element of the assault and battery intentional tort occurred in Florida, but counters that the assault and battery is not the "tortious act" conferring specific jurisdiction under the long-arm statute. Rather, Cortez argues that the tortious act establishing specific jurisdiction is the conspiracy that Bantrab and its Directors undertook in the State of Florida.
The significant problem, however, with Cortez's argument is that Florida does not recognize civil conspiracy as a freestanding tort. SFM Holdings Ltd. v. Banc of Am. Secs., LLC, 764 F.3d 1327, 1338-39 (11th Cir. 2014) (applying Florida law). The gist of a civil conspiracy is not the conspiracy itself, but the underlying civil wrong occurring pursuant to the conspiracy and which results in the plaintiff's damages. Marriott Int'l, Inc. v. Am. Bridge Bahamas, Ltd., 193 So.3d 902, 909 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015). The conspiracy does not give rise to an independent cause of action, but is a device to allow a plaintiff to spread liability to those involved in causing the underlying tort. Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Alexander, 123 So.3d 67, 80 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) (observing: "Conspiracy is not a separate or independent tort but is a vehicle for imputing the tortious acts of one coconspirator to another to establish joint and several liability.") (quoting Ford v. Rowland, 562 So.2d 731, 735 n.2 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990) ).9 The conspiracy, therefore, is inextricably linked with the underlying tort. Blatt v. Green, Rose, Kahn & Piotrkowski, 456 So.2d 949, 950-51 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984).
Just as the alleged conspiracy-alone and in isolation-is not actionable independently from the underlying tort, we similarly conclude that the conspiracy alleged by Cortez, standing alone, does not provide a sufficient basis to confer specific jurisdiction under section 48.193(1)(a)(2) to adjudicate the assault and battery. This is especially true here when not a single element of the underlying assault and battery is alleged to have occurred in Florida.
We cannot read section 48.193(1)(a)'s dual requirements-both that a defendant does an enumerated act in Florida and that the cause of action arises from an enumerated act in Florida-as authorizing the exercise of specific jurisdiction when the only tort relied upon to confer such jurisdiction is a civil conspiracy to commit a tort, and no element of the underlying tort is alleged to have occurred in Florida. Cortez has not provided us with, and we have not been able to locate, any authority for the proposition that Florida's long-arm statute confers such specific jurisdiction upon a Florida court. We decline Cortez's invitation to be the first Florida court to determine that the connexity requirement is met under such circumstances. We therefore conclude that Cortez's allegations are insufficient to confer specific jurisdiction under section 48.192(1)(a)(2) to adjudicate Cortez's assault and battery claim against Bantrab.10
*1137b. Operating a business venture in Florida-section 48.192(1)(a)(1)
Cortez also argues that the trial court has specific jurisdiction to adjudicate Cortez's assault and battery claim against Bantrab under section 48.193(1)(a)(1), because Cortez has alleged that Bantrab is conducting business in Florida, and the attack on Cortez arose out of such activities. Our reading of this Court's connexity requirement jurisprudence, however, obviates the need for us to evaluate whether Cortez's allegations regarding Bantrab's business activities are sufficient to confer jurisdiction to adjudicate Cortez's tort claim. Because we have determined that Cortez has not met the connexity requirement conferring jurisdiction to adjudicate Cortez's assault and battery tort, Bantrab's business activities are irrelevant. Small v. Chicola, 929 So.2d 1122, 1125 n.1 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) ; Elmlund v. Mottershead, 750 So.2d 736, 737 n.2 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000).
Therefore, we reverse that portion of the trial court's order concluding that it had specific jurisdiction over Bantrab under Florida's long-arm statute to adjudicate Count VIII.
2. Florida RICO (Count XVI)
In Count XVI, Cortez alleged that Bantrab's conduct is actionable under Florida's RICO statute. While not entirely clear, it seems that, notwithstanding the trial court's dismissal of this claim without prejudice requiring Cortez to file a more definite statement, the trial court's March 14, 2017 order nonetheless determined that Cortez's allegations were sufficient to confer specific jurisdiction under section 48.193(1)(a) for the trial court to adjudicate this claim.
Because the trial court had dismissed the claim, it was premature for the trial court to reach the jurisdictional issue. Until it had first been determined that Cortez could state a cause of action for Florida RICO against Bantrab, the trial court was unable to determine the question of specific jurisdiction. As the Florida Supreme Court observed in Wendt:
The threshold question that must be determined is whether the allegations of the complaint state a cause of action. Cf. 8100 R.R. Ave. Realty Trust v. R.W. Tansill Constr. Co., 638 So.2d 149, 151 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994) (where the threshold question of personal jurisdiction turns on whether a tort is committed in Florida, the court necessarily must review the allegations of the complaint to determine if a cause of action is stated); Silver [v. Levinson], 648 So.2d [240] at 241 [ (Fla. 4th DCA 1994) ] (same).
Wendt, 822 So.2d at 1260.
Indeed, as indicated above in footnote 4, the trial court, after apparently determining that it could exercise personal jurisdiction over Bantrab to adjudicate Cortez's Florida RICO claims, sometime later determined that Cortez could not state a Florida RICO cause of action against Bantrab, and dismissed that claim with prejudice. Hence, to the extent that the trial court's March 14, 2017 order purported to determine that the trial court had specific jurisdiction over Bantrab to adjudicate Cortez's Florida RICO claim, we reverse that part of the order as being premature.
V. Conclusion
We therefore: (i) reverse the trial court's order finding general jurisdiction over Bantrab for Count VIII alleging assault *1138and battery and Count XVI alleging Florida RICO violations, and, to the extent it may be necessary, remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion, including a determination as to whether the court can assert general personal jurisdiction over Bantrab applying the constitutional due process standard announced in Goodyear and Daimler; (ii) reverse the trial court's order finding specific jurisdiction over Bantrab for Count VIII; and (iii) reverse, as premature, that portion of the trial court's order purporting to find specific jurisdiction over Bantrab for Count XVI.
Reversed with instructions.