Any person who engages directly or indirectly in purposeful contacts within this state in connection with the offering or advertising for sale of, or has business dealings with respect to, a motor vehicle within the state shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state, upon service of process in accordance with the provisions of the general laws.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-5.1-2
Application of chapter
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In Re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation (2004)
Most recently applied in Rhode Island Truck Ctr v. Daimler Trucks North America (February 2024)
P.L. 1974, ch. 292, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.