This article analyzes whether the technical characteristics of the Internet should create a separate legal jurisdiction, and if a separate jurisdiction would be beneficial to the Internet.

Covers issues of jurisdiction in cyberspace such as choice of forum, choice of law and enforcement.

Review of five court decisions which address personal jurisdiction in a distant forum based on contacts through the Internet.

Analysis of criteria which enable a State to prescribe rules for cyberspace, to subject violators of these rules to the process of its courts, and to enforce these rules.

Paper prepared by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada that discusses issues relating to courts' jurisdiction over cases arising from Internet use, and briefly addresses the constitutional question of who may regulate the Internet.

Analysis of trends by Henry M. Cooper, while a student of Stetson University College of Law, U.S.

Discussion of cases in this arena, originally published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

Analysis of both cases finding or refusing jurisdiction on the basis of Internet contacts, from the law firm of Satterlee Stephens Burke and Burke LLP.