The "minimum contacts" must be purposefully directed towards the state by the defendant.
Lapa Rios has been designed for maximum jungle exposure and minimum contact with the outside world.
The court stated that the concept of minimum contacts can be seen to perform two related but distinguishable functions.
The Florida court held that a contract with an out of state party was not enough to establish minimum contacts for personal jurisdiction.
Holding: selling software through a company's online service is enough to establish minimum contacts in the state where that company is located.
Holding: solicitation by advertising through an Internet website is enough to establish minimum contacts anywhere.
The new furnace means that waste comes into minimum contact with staff.
For several months, he and Grosvenor had been polite to each other on a basis of minimum contact.
We need only a minimum contact with the ship's controls to initiate action, though we do have to be inside the ship.
Courts have struggled with the Internet as a source of minimum contacts.