South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 29B - Insurers Supervision, Rehabilitation And Liquidation
Section 58-29B-6 - Grounds for personal jurisdiction.

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;
(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.

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