P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 542
In a proceeding to establish, enforce, or modify a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of Puerto Rico may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian or conservator if:
(1) The individual is personally served within Puerto Rico;
(2) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico by consent, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;
(3) the individual resided with the child in Puerto Rico;
(4) the individual resided in Puerto Rico and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;
(5) the child resides in Puerto Rico as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
(6) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in Puerto Rico and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;
(7) the individual asserted parentage in the putative father registry maintained in Puerto Rico by the appropriate agency, or
(8) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of Puerto Rico and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
History —Dec. 20, 1997, No. 180, art. 2.201.