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H.B. 272 Bill Analysis
133rd General Assembly
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Version: As Passed by the House
Primary Sponsors: Reps. Oelslager and Hillyer
Effective Date:
Aida S. Montano, Research Associate
SUMMARY
 Expands the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a court to include personal jurisdiction
over a person on any basis consistent with the Ohio Constitution and the United States
Constitution.
DETAILED ANALYSIS
Personal jurisdiction
Current law lists the causes of action (see below) based on which a court may exercise
personal jurisdiction over a person acting directly or by an agent.1 It provides that when
jurisdiction over a person is based solely on that Revised Code section, only a cause of action
arising from the listed acts may be asserted against the person.2 The bill replaces the provision
described in the second sentence above with the provision that in addition to a court’s exercise
of personal jurisdiction over the listed causes of action, a court may exercise personal
jurisdiction over a person on any basis consistent with the Ohio Constitution and the United
States Constitution.3
A court’s personal jurisdiction under current law applies to a cause of action arising from
a person’s:4
 Transacting any business in this state;
1 R.C. 2307.382(A).
2 R.C. 2307.382(C).
3 R.C. 2307.382(C).
4 R.C. 2307.382(A).
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 Contracting to supply services or goods in this state;
 Causing tortious injury by an act or omission in this state;
 Causing tortious injury in this state by an act or omission outside this state if the person
regularly does or solicits business, engages in any other persistent course of conduct, or
derives substantial revenue from goods used or consumed or services rendered in this
state;
 Causing injury in this state to any person by express or implied breach of warranty made
in the sale of goods outside this state when the person might reasonably have expected
such person to use, consume, or be affected by the goods in this state, and the person
also regularly does or solicits business, engages in any other persistent course of
conduct, or derives substantial revenue from goods used or consumed or services
rendered in this state;
 Causing tortious injury in this state to any person by an act outside this state committed
with the purpose of injuring persons, when the person might reasonably have expected
that some person would be injured thereby in this state;
 Causing tortious injury to any person by a criminal act, any element of which takes place
in this state, which the person commits or in the commission of which the person is
guilty of complicity;
 Having an interest in, using, or possessing real property in this state;
 Contracting to insure any person, property, or risk located in this state at the time of
contracting.
Current law, unchanged by the bill, provides that a person who enters into an
agreement, as a principal, with a sales representative for the solicitation of orders in this state
is transacting business in this state.5
HISTORY
Action Date
Introduced 06-04-19
Reported, H. Civil Justice 10-17-19
Passed House (92-0) 11-13-19
H0272-PH-133/ts
5 R.C. 2307.382(B).
P a g e |2 H.B. 272
As Passed by the House

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 2307.382
As Reported By House Committee: 2307.382
As Passed By House: 2307.382