Opinion ID: 166639
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Heading: Utah Long-Arm Statute

Text: 47 The Utah Supreme Court has stated that any set of circumstances that satisfies due process will also satisfy the long-arm statute. SII MegaDiamond, Inc. v. Am. Superabrasives Corp., 969 P.2d 430, 433 (Utah 1998). This is because the Utah legislature has declared that the long-arm statute must be interpreted broadly so as to assert jurisdiction over nonresident defendants to the fullest extent permitted by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Utah Code Ann. § 78-27-22. Thus, because the court's exercise of jurisdiction over Sporoptic in this case satisfies due process, that exercise also satisfies the Utah long-arm statute. 48 Accordingly, we conclude that both the federal and state inquiries for whether assertion of specific personal jurisdiction is proper are satisfied on the facts of this case, and therefore that the district court did not err in exercising jurisdiction over Sporoptic. 9