minimum contacts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 326 U.S. 310 - International Shoe Co. v. Washington · 1945Most cited · 31,881 citing opinions
due process requires only that in order to subject a defendant to a judgment in personam, if he be not present within the territory of the forum, he have certain minimum contacts with it such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend 'traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.
How often courts cite the cases defining “minimum contacts”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “minimum contacts” — 33,467 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1945–1950
due process requires only that in order to subject a defendant to a judgment in personam, if he be not present within the territory of the forum, he have certain minimum contacts with it such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend 'traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.