Law360, New York ( March 1, 2016, 11:56 AM EST) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit weighed in recently on an increasingly contentious personal jurisdiction issue — whether a defendant's statutorily mandated registration to do business in a state or appointment of an agent for service of process constitutes consent to personal jurisdiction for any and all cases brought there, no matter how unrelated to the state. There are two key questions courts generally face in this analysis: first, whether the state's foreign corporation statute constitutes such broad-ranging consent to general personal jurisdiction, and, if so, whether statutorily-mandated "consent" comports with due process and other constitutional concerns....