(a) A court may exercise personal jurisdiction in civil cases over persons residing or found in American Samoa, or who have been duly summoned or voluntarily appear.
(b) Any person, firm or corporation, whether or not a citizen or resident of this Territory, who, in person or through an agent, takes any of the following actions, thereby submits, and if a corporation, submits its personal representative, to the jurisdiction of the courts of this Territory, as to any cause of action, suit or proceeding arising out of such action:
(1) the transaction of any business within this Territory;
(2) the commission of a tortious act within this Territory;
(3) the ownership, use, or possession of any real estate in this Territory;
(4) contracting to insure any person, property or risk within this Territory at the time of contracting.
(c) Criminal cases shall be prosecuted and tried only in a court having Territorial jurisdiction over the place where the crime was committed.
History: 1962, PL 7-36; 1969, PL 11-54; 1970, PL 11-106.