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735 ILCS 5/12-665

    (735 ILCS 5/12-665)
    Sec. 12-665. Personal jurisdiction.
    (a) A foreign-country judgment may not be refused recognition for lack of personal jurisdiction if:
        (1) the defendant was served with process personally

in the foreign country;

(2) the defendant voluntarily appeared in the

proceeding, other than for the purpose of protecting property seized or threatened with seizure in the proceeding or of contesting the jurisdiction of the court over the defendant;

(3) the defendant, before the commencement of the

proceeding, had agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the foreign court with respect to the subject matter involved;

(4) the defendant was domiciled in the foreign

country when the proceeding was instituted or was a corporation or other form of business organization that had its principal place of business in, or was organized under the laws of, the foreign country;

(5) the defendant had a business office in the

foreign country and the proceeding in the foreign court involved a cause of action arising out of business done by the defendant through that office in the foreign country; or

(6) the defendant operated a motor vehicle or

airplane in the foreign country and the proceeding involved a cause of action arising out of that operation.

(b)  The list of bases for personal jurisdiction in subsection (a) is not exclusive. The courts of this State may recognize bases of personal jurisdiction other than those listed in subsection (a) as sufficient to support a foreign-country judgment.

(Source: P.A. 97-140, eff. 1-1-12.)