South Dakota Codified Laws 58-29B-6. Grounds for personal jurisdiction
In addition to other grounds for jurisdiction provided by the law of this state, a court of this state having jurisdiction of the subject matter has jurisdiction over a person served pursuant to chapter 15-6 or other applicable provisions of law in an action brought by the receiver of a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this state:
(1) If the person served is obligated to the insurer in any way as an incident to any agency or brokerage or other arrangement that may exist or has existed between the insurer and the insurance producer or representative of the insurer, in any action on or incident to the obligation;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 58-29B-6
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- State: when used in context signifying a jurisdiction other than the State of South Dakota, a state, the District of Columbia, a territory, commonwealth, or possession of the United States of America, or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See South Dakota Codified Laws 58-1-2
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
(2) If the person served is a reinsurer who has at any time written a policy of reinsurance for an insurer against which a rehabilitation or liquidation order is in effect when the action is commenced, or is an insurance producer or representative of or for the reinsurer, in any action on or incident to the reinsurance contract;
(3) If the person served is or has been an officer, manager, trustee, organizer, promoter, or person in a position of comparable authority or influence in an insurer against which a rehabilitation or liquidation order is in effect when the action is commenced, in any action resulting from such a relationship with the insurer;
(4) If the person served is an insurance producer or representative of the insurer or other person who has at any time written policies of insurance for or has acted in any manner on behalf of an insurer against which a delinquency proceeding has been instituted, in any action resulting from or incident to such a relationship with the insurer;
(5) If the person served is or was at the time of the institution of the delinquency proceeding against the insurer holding assets in which the receiver claims an interest on behalf of the insurer, in any action concerning the assets; or
(6) If the person served is obligated to the insurer in any way whatsoever, in any action or incident to the obligation.
Source: SL 1989, ch 436, § 6; SL 1992, ch 351, § 1; SL 2001, ch 286, § 139.