The U.S. Supreme Court has held that a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant who is temporarily present by personally serving the defendant in the state.

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This principle is known as "tag jurisdiction" or "transient jurisdiction," where the U.S. Supreme Court has held that personal service of process on a nonresident defendant who is physically present in the state, even if only temporarily, is sufficient to confer personal jurisdiction over that defendant. This was established in the case of Burnham v. Superior Court of California, 495 U.S. 604 (1990).

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