The Long Arm of the Law – How Courts Reach Out to Out-of-State Defendants (CIVPRO Long Arm Statutes)

🎙️ Civil Procedure Spotlight: The Long Arm of the Law – How Courts Reach Out to Out-of-State Defendants In this episode of American Law Café, we unpack long-arm statutes—the state laws that allow courts to “reach out” and assert personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants, and the constitutional limits that stop them from going too far. Here’s what we cover: Part 1 – What Are Long-Arm Statutes? State laws that let courts pull in defendants beyond their borders—but they can never exten...