Every state court in the United States have jurisdiction over the persons within the territory. The court must have both personal jurisdiction as well as subject jurisdiction so as to have a jurisdiction over a case.
Any court can exercise personal jurisdiction over any defendant unless the statute exists in forum state which explicitly give authorization to the court to have personal jurisdiction over that particular defendant. A defendant must not be a resident of the state in order to have a personal jurisdiction over him by the court.
The outcome would probably be that people that did serious harm wouldn’t get a punishment for their actions where as innocent people would get a punishment without a second thought.
___Intentional_____ torts occur when the defendant takes an action intending that certain consequences will result or knowing that certain consequences are likely to result
