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A jury awarded Tamasine Jewell $150,000 in actual damages and $250,000 in punitive damages on her fraud claim against Norman Urrutia and three other defendants. In this appeal, Urrutia alone challenges an evidentiary ruling that allowed evidence about his prior similar business dealings. Urrutia also claims that the trial court erred in refusing to grant his motion in limine to exclude evidence about his Florida criminal convictions and erred by denying his motion for mistrial after that evidence was introduced. Because we find no error in these three rulings, we affirm.

When viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence shows that Jewell advanced $40,000 to Penco Industries, Inc. “Penco” and invested $60,000 in Tampeco, Inc. “Tampeco”. Tampeco was formed by Lee Preston and Jewell to develop and operate a nationwide network of Montego Pool dealers. The plan called for the dissolution of Penco whereupon Tampeco would own the name Montego Pools.

 
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