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When a state’s long-arm statute reaches as far as the Constitution allows, the personal-jurisdiction analysis is governed by the due-process standard of minimum contacts. In that situation, the long-arm statute doesn’t add a separate test; you apply the constitutional requirements: the defendant must have certain minimum contacts with the forum state such that exercising jurisdiction would not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice, and the suit must arise from those contacts (or be sufficiently related to them). If the defendant’s contacts meet those minimum-contacts and reasonableness standards, jurisdiction is proper; if not, it isn’t.

This aligns with the idea that the long-arm reaches to the constitutional limit, so the analysis collapses to the constitutional one. It isn’t about requiring physical presence in the state, and it doesn’t ignore minimum contacts. It also isn’t true that such a long-arm automatically grants jurisdiction in every case; the due-process limits still apply.