Personal jurisdiction can be established over a defendant if that defendant has "minimum contacts" with a state "such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice." Decided December 3, 1945 (argued November 14, 1945). Opinion of the Court: Harlan F. Stone → go there Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Personal jurisdiction. International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that a party, particularly a corporation, may be subject to the jurisdiction of a state court if it has "minimum contacts" with that state. The ruling has important consequences for corporations involved in interstate commerce, their payments to state unemployment compensation funds, limits on the power of states imposed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the sufficiency of service of process, and, especially, personal jurisdiction. Wiki link