Jurisdiction over persons, property or status
§ 301. Jurisdiction over persons, property or status. A court may exercise such jurisdiction over persons, property, or status as might have been exercised heretofore.
New York courts keep all the jurisdiction they historically had ("as might have been exercised heretofore"). Short and open-ended: it carries forward long-standing bases like domicile, presence, or doing business in the state. ★ This is the general jurisdiction anchor; § 302 is the reach-out extension.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 2 — The JG-22 CPLR and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.