Mark and Karla Gibbs v. Primelending, a Plains Capital Company

Summary

The court held that using conspiracy theory to establish personal jurisdiction does not violate Arkansas's long-arm statute. Because the statute extends jurisdiction to the maximum extent permitted by Fourteenth Amendment due process, the controlling question was whether imputing a conspirator's forum-related acts to other conspirators is constitutionally permissible. The court concluded that it is, when the conspiracy and its forum-related acts satisfy due-process requirements.