Bento Cuisine is a lunch-cart business. It occupies a street corner in Texarkana, a city that straddles the border of Arkansas and Texas. Across the street—and across the state line, which runs down the middle of the street—is Rico’s Tacos. The two businesses compete for customers. Recently, Bento has begun to believe that Rico’s is engaging in competitive behavior that is illegal.

If Bento were to file a lawsuit against Rico’s, in which type of court could Bento initiate the action? Bento could file a suit against Rico’s in a trial court of ______________ jurisdiction in either the state of Bento’s location or the state of Rico’s location. Because there appears to be diversity of ______________ in this situation, if the amount in controversy could conceivably exceed $75,000, a suit might instead be filed in a ______________ district court, which is the equivalent of a state trial court of general jurisdiction.