2. Rule 4(k)(1)(B), the so-called bulge provision, was promulgated in order to allow complicated controversies to be
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2. Rule 4(k)(1)(B), the so-called “bulge” provision, was promulgated in order “to allow complicated controversies to be ended by a single lawsuit if all the necessary third parties could be found within 100 miles of the courthouse.” Coleman v. American Export Isbrandsten Lines, Inc., 405 F.2d 250, 252 (2d Cir. 1968). When service is effected under Rule 4(k)(1)(B), is due process satisfied if defendant has minimum contacts with the state in which bulge service is effected? See Quinones v. Pennsylvania General Ins. Co., 804 F.2d 1167 (10th Cir.
1986) (examining this question under former Federal Rule 4(f)). Would service under the
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