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Louisiana Law R eview Volume 54 | Numb r 2 November 1993 Federal Question Jurisdiction: Must a Defendant Have Minimum Contacts with the State Whose Long-Arm Statute is Used to Serve Process? Lisa Rouchell R pository Citation Lisa Rouch ll, Federal Question Jurisdiction: Must a Defendant Have Minimum Contacts with the State Whose Long -Arm Statute is Used to Serve Process?, 54 La. L. R v. (1993) Available at : http://digitalcommons.law.lsu. du/lalr v/vol54/iss2/7 This Comm nt is brought to you for fr e and op n acc ss by the Law R vi ws and Journals at DigitalCommons @ LSU Law C nt r. It has b n acc pt d for inclusion in Louisiana Law R vi w by an authoriz d administrator of DigitalCommons @ LSU Law C nt r. For more information, pl as contact sarah.buras@law.lsu. du. Federal Question Jurisdiction: Must a Defendant Have Minimum Contacts with the State Whose Long-Arm Statute is Used to Serve Process? I. INTRODUCTION Rule 4(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure authorizes the federal district courts to serve process either in accordance with a federal statute or under the circumstances in which the long-arm statute of the state where the district court is located permits service. Although the United States Code contains countless statutes that provide remedies at federal law, service is authorized by an accompanying federal statute in only a few of these.2 As a result, the long-arm statute of the state where the federal district court is located must be borrowed to serve the defendant with process in