First established by the US Supreme Court in the case of International Shoe Co. v. State of Washington (1945), long-arm jurisdiction allows state courts to exercise in personam jurisdiction in ...

In personam. In personam jurisdiction is the power that a court has over a person named in a particular action (an “action,” by the way, is just a fancy, lawyerly sounding way to say a lawsuit or ...

More than a century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court distinguished between in personam and in rem jurisdiction for state-court jurisdictional inquiries. Pennoyer v. Neff , 95 U.S.714, 24 L. Ed. 565 (1877).

With the basic understanding that in personam jurisdiction relates to the court’s ability to bind people and in rem jurisdiction relates to its ability to bind property, we turn to the Minnesota ...

In personam jurisdiction only applies, of course, in a divorce matter where the Court has personal jurisdiction over both parties. A situation can thus arise where one party files for divorce ...

RICHMOND, VA — Even though the trial court had in rem jurisdiction over husband to issue a divorce decree, it lacked in personam jurisdiction to enter a child support award, the Virginia Court ...