§ 54.06 Service Outside the State on Persons, Firms or Corporations Who do Certain Acts in This State
54.06. Service Outside the State on Persons, Firms or Corporations Who do Certain Acts in This State
(a) Service outside the state sufficient to authorize a general judgment in personam may be obtained upon any person, executor, administrator or other legal representative, firm or corporation, whether or not a citizen or resident of this state, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts enumerated in this Rule 54.06:
(1) Transacts any business within this state;
(2) Makes any contract within this state;
(3) Commits a tortious act within this state;
(4) Owns, uses or possesses any real estate situated in this state;
(5) Contracts to insure any person, property or risk located within this state at the time of contracting;
(6) Engages in an act of sexual intercourse within this state with the mother of a child within or near the probable period of conception of that child.
(b) Service sufficient to authorize a general judgment in personam may be obtained on any person, any person's personal representative, or other legal representative, whether or not a citizen or resident of the state, who has lived in lawful marriage within this state, as to all civil actions for dissolution of marriage or for legal separation and all obligations arising for maintenance of a spouse, support of any child of the marriage, attorney fees, suit money or disposition of marital property, if the other party to the lawful marriage lives in this state or if a third party has provided support to the spouse or to the children of the marriage and is a resident of this state.
(c) Only causes of action arising from acts or conduct enumerated in Rule 54.06(a) or Rule 54.06(b) may be asserted against a defendant in an action in which jurisdiction is based on this Rule 54.06.
(d) Service of process may be made as provided in Rule 54.14 or Rule 54.16.