Assertion: commerce's product | /r/Causes | damage
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text: Stream of commerce theory refers to a principle that permits a state to exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant if the defendant places a product in the general marketplace and the product causes injury or damage in the forum state, provided the defendant also takes other acts to establish some connection with the forum state, as by advertising there or by hiring someone to serve as a sales agent there.