shoes of the decedent for purposes of personal jurisdiction. R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-5-33(a). In the past, common law directed that an executor could only be sued in the state in which he was appointed. See Martel, 992 F.2d at 1246 (discussing the Massachusetts common law rule); Gandolfo v. Alford, 31 Conn.Supp. 417, 333 A.2d 65, 66 (Ct.1975)(stating “that the general common-law rule is that an executor or administrator of an estate can sue and be sued only in a jurisdiction in which he has been so appointed.”) In the last fort (Minn.1996)(coneluding that “the decedent’s foreign personal representative is subject to in personam jurisdiction under the long-arm statute if the decedent would be subject to jurisdiction if alive.”); Hayden v. Wheeler, 33 Ill.2d 110, 210 N.E.2d 495, 497 (1965)(<HOLDING>); Gandolfo, 333 A.2d at 69 (holding that
holding that the foreign administrator of a deceased nonresident was subject to jurisdiction under the illinois state longarm statute because dece dent would have been subject to jurisdiction had he lived holding there was no personal jurisdiction over nonresident guarantor of equipment lease although payments were made to illinois bank the guaranty was accepted in illinois and it provided that it would be gov erned by illinois law holding that unlike subject matter jurisdiction personal jurisdiction may be waived holding rico plaintiff may resort to state longarm statute to serve foreign defendants abroad and assuming personal jurisdiction question would turn on foreign defendants contacts with middle district of florida holding that the massachusetts longarm statute provides for jurisdiction over a nonresident personal representative when the decedent had sufficient contacts with the forum such that the decedent would have been subject to personal jurisdiction had he lived