Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. won a Florida state court appeal Wednesday against a Miami man who claimed he was owed payments for a movie based in part on his life.

Richie Effs sued Sony Pictures in 2012, seven years after the company entered into a licensing agreement with Effs’ cousin and production company business partner Cess Silvera to distribute the movie “Shottas.”

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