[escanda]

The best advice in this common mal practice is setting as base law court your jurisdiction; the farer the better.

For instance, I am in Spain and I always signed contracts based in California, etc. Badly done! Next time I will set Madrid, Spain courts as ruling law.

This way you can sue the ass off them and make them pay the money in debt and even some more to the courts.

edit: typo

[fallingknife]

Unfortunately that will probably not do you much good. If the company is based outside of Spain all the Spanish courts can do is take their assets located in Spain which is probably nothing.

[protocolture]

Spain is a bad example, but lots of countries have bilateral legal arrangements for this sort of thing.

[dx034]

As Spain is part of the EU, it should at least be good for the EU.

[victorbjorklund]

All assets in the EU now and for the next 1000 years.

[adastra22]

Doesn't that make it easier for a California company to just ignore you?

[protocolture]

No it just means that they need to appear in your courts via a local law firm if they want to contest.

This is good advice.