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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69535</law_id><section_number>59.1-501.10</section_number><catch_line>Contractual choice of forum</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-501.15</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="43">Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> The parties in their agreement may choose an exclusive judicial forum unless the choice is unreasonable or unjust. <a id="paragraph-251399" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-501.10/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> A judicial forum specified in an agreement is not exclusive unless the agreement expressly so provides and, in a mass-market transaction, expressly and conspicuously so provides. <a id="paragraph-251400" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-501.10/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 101, 996; 2001, c. 763.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
