Figueroa v. BNSF Railway Co.

*144KISTLER, J.

Oregon requires that foreign corporations doing business in this state appoint a registered agent to receive service of process. ORS 60.731CL).1 The primary question that this case presents is whether, by appointing a registered agent in Oregon, defendant (a foreign corporation) impliedly consented to general jurisdiction here—that is, whether defendant consented to have Oregon courts adjudicate any and all claims against it regardless of whether those claims have any connection to defendant’s activities in this state.2 Defendant moved to dismiss this action because the trial court…