Corporate Counsel | Dec 19, 2012
As global commerce has expanded beyond traditional territorial bounds, the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts has undergone a similar expansion. Long behind us are the days when a foreign corporation could consider itself comfortably beyond the reach of a U.S. court so long as it maintained no „physical presence“ in that court’s geographical jurisdiction.
The Now Even-Longer Reach of U.S. Law Over Foreign Corporations