Opinion ID: 4545811
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Text: Personal Jurisdiction [5,6] Personal jurisdiction is the power of a tribunal to subject and bind a particular entity to its decisions. 5 Before a court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant, the court must determine, first, whether the long-arm statute is satisfied and, second, whether minimum contacts exist between the defendant and the forum state for personal jurisdiction over the defendant without offending due process. 6 [7-9] Nebraska’s long-arm statute extends Nebraska’s jurisdiction over nonresidents having any contact with or maintaining any relation to this state as far as the U.S. Constitution permits. 7 It was the intention of the Legislature to provide for the broadest allowable jurisdiction over nonresidents under Nebraska’s long-arm statute. 8 When, as here, a state construes its long-arm statute to confer jurisdiction to the fullest extent constitutionally permitted, the inquiry collapses into the single 2 Nimmer v. Giga Entertainment Media, 298 Neb. 630, 905 N.W.2d 523 (2018). 3 Lombardo v. Sedlacek, 299 Neb. 400, 908 N.W.2d 630 (2018). 4 Id. 5 Nimmer, supra note 2. 6 Id. 7 Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-536 (Reissue 2016). 8 VKGS v. Planet Bingo, 285 Neb. 599, 828 N.W.2d 168 (2013). - 700 - Nebraska Supreme Court Advance Sheets 305 Nebraska Reports YERANSIAN v. WILLKIE FARR Cite as 305 Neb. 693 question of whether jurisdiction comports with due process. 9 Therefore, the issue is whether Willkie had sufficient minimum contacts with Nebraska so that the exercise of personal jurisdiction would not offend the traditional notions of fair play and