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Originally Posted by Ak Mike
I am confident that I could sue you in a Dutch court for slandering me in Illinois. What law applies may be an open question, but the courts in any jurisdiction are not limited to resolving disputes that arose in that jurisdiction.
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They are. Generally speaking, a court only has jurisdiction over citizens of its own country, or companies which are registered in that country. The reason that people can sue, say, airlines, in a foreign country is that most major airlines have a corporate presence in practically every country in the world.
That's why extradition treaties exist between countries; if I, as a British citizen, committed a crime in the United States, I couldn't be tried in a British court for that offence; the American legal system would need to apply to have me extradited to the US to stand trial there.