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1. Burnham v. Superior Court of Cal., No. 89-44, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, February 28, 1990, Argued , May 29, 1990, Decided

OVERVIEW: Personal service in a divorce suit upon a nonresident while he was temporarily and voluntarily in the state satisfied the Due Process Clause and established in personum jurisdiction because nothing under minimum contacts doctrine undermined the proposition that physical presence was itself sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction.

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