Minimum contacts with the forum state can enable a court in that state to exert personal jurisdiction over a party consistent with the Due Process Clause. Decided December 3, 1945 (argued November 14, 1945). Opinion of the Court: Harlan F. Stone → go there Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Fourteenth Amendment rights. 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