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Minimum contacts is central, but it is not the only vocabulary of personal jurisdiction. Traditional bases and property proceedings remain important - with modern due-process limits.
Product-distribution cases test whether a manufacturer or seller deliberately served the forum market, not merely whether a movable product eventually arrived there.
Complete diversity depends on legal citizenship, not casual residence. The analysis changes by party type and is measured when the action is filed.
Diversity jurisdiction requires an amount that exceeds $75,000. The difficult questions involve good faith, legal certainty, multiple claims, multiple parties, and supplemental jurisdiction.
Section 1367 lets related claims travel with an anchor claim, but diversity cases trigger special plaintiff-side limits and every qualifying claim remains subject to discretionary decline.