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      "id": 100781,
      "date": "2002-06-25",
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      "title": "E-Commerce and Personal Jurisdiction: Are Participating Businesses Subject to Suit in Foreign Courts?",
      "summary": "Electronic commerce enables companies to access markets with which they have few physical,\nlegal,\nor traditional connections. An important question for a company deciding whether to engage in e-\ncommerce is whether establishing an Internet presence will subject it to litigation in foreign\njurisdictions. While the Constitution's due process rights protect a company's liberty interests in\nbeing subject to suits only in those forums with which it has meaningful \"contacts, ties, or relations,\"\nit is not clear to what extent electronic connections with a state are sufficient to warrant jurisdiction\nin a state or federal court. This report reviews due process limitations on assertions of personal\njurisdiction by state and federal courts, and examines how lower courts have applied that law to\nclaims involving the Internet. This report will be updated.",
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