*698In order to facilitate the enforcement of federal judgments, 28 U.S.C. § 1963 provides that a judgment entered in a federal court may be registered in any other federal district by "filing a certified copy of the judgment" in that district. In this case we address, as a matter of first impression in our Circuit, whether personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtors in the district of registration is required for such registration of a judgment. We hold that it is not, because neither § 1963 nor due process imposes such a personal jurisdiction requirement. We therefore reverse the order and judgment of the district court, and remand.
BACKGROUND
In 2002, Plaintiffs-Appellants Fidelity National Financial, Inc., and Fidelity Express Network, Inc. (collectively, "Fidelity"), obtained a multimillion dollar civil fraud judgment (the "California Judgment") against Defendants-Appellees the Friedmans and Meshkatais (collectively, "Defendants") in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. This judgment became final on May 15, 2003, after this Court dismissed Defendants' appeal from the judgment.
While Defendants' appeal in the original case was pending, Fidelity registered the California Judgment in the District of Arizona pursuant to the federal registration statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1963. In 2007, Fidelity attempted to renew the Arizona judgment. However, on March 2, 2012, the District Court of Arizona ruled that Fidelity's 2007 renewal or re-registration of the Arizona registered judgment were void as untimely, because the judgment had already expired under Arizona's five-year statute of limitations for the enforcement of judgments.
Unable to enforce the Arizona registered judgment or re-register the original California Judgment in Arizona, Fidelity came up with a creative alternative. Fidelity registered the California Judgment in the Western District of Washington (the "Washington Judgment") Fidelity then registered the newly-obtained Washington Judgment in the District of Arizona (the "Second Arizona Judgment").
Several months later, Defendants moved the Arizona District Court under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) to vacate the newly-registered Second Arizona Judgment as void, arguing that § 1963 did not allow successive registration of federal judgments. That is, Defendants argued that registering the California Judgment in Washington did not create a new Washington judgment that could then be registered in Arizona under § 1963. Defendants also argued that, in any case, the Washington Judgment was invalid for lack of personal jurisdiction over Defendants. The Arizona district court granted Defendants' motion and vacated the Second Arizona Judgment, holding that § 1963 did not allow successive registration of judgments-in other words, that only an original judgment, such as the California Judgment in this case, may be registered in another district under § 1963. See Fid. Nat'l Fin., Inc. v. Friedman , 939 F. Supp. 2d 974, 979-87 (D. Ariz. 2013). The district court did not reach Defendants' second argument regarding lack of due process and personal jurisdiction. Id. at 986-87.
Fidelity appealed, and this Court reversed. Fid. Nat'l Fin., Inc. v. Friedman , 803 F.3d 999 (9th Cir. 2015) (" Fidelity I "). We held that registering the California Judgment in Washington created a "new" Washington judgment that, like any other Washington judgment, could be re-registered in another state under the plain terms of § 1963. Id. at 1003. We remanded the case to the Arizona district court on *699that basis, without reaching Defendants' alternative argument that the Washington Judgment was void for lack of jurisdiction over Defendants. See id. at 1003 n.3.
On remand, the district court again granted Defendants' Rule 60(b) motion for relief from judgment, after allowing supplemental briefing on Defendants' contention that the Washington Judgment was void because the Western District of Washington lacked personal jurisdiction over Defendants at the time of registration. See Fid. Nat'l Fin. Inc. v. Friedman , No. CV-15-2288-PHX-DJH, 2017 WL 6049376 (D. Ariz. May 1, 2017). The district court held that registration of a judgment pursuant to § 1963 requires that the court of registration have personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtors. See id. at *6-7. In reaching this conclusion, the district court first noted that a judgment is void if the court that "rendered" the judgment lacked jurisdiction over the parties. Id. at *5. It then reasoned that because we suggested in Fidelity I that registering a judgment under § 1963 creates a "new" judgment, the court of registration can be said to have "rendered" a judgment such that the normal jurisdictional requirements apply. See id. at *5-7. Because Defendants had no assets or other contacts in Washington, the district court concluded that the Washington court lacked personal jurisdiction over Defendants; consequently, that the Washington Judgment was void and could not have been validly registered in Arizona. Id. at *4, *7. As a result, the district court vacated the Second Arizona Judgment. Fidelity again appealed.
STANDARD OF REVIEW
This Court "review[s] de novo ... a district court's ruling upon a Rule 60(b)(4) motion ... because the question of the validity of a judgment is a legal one." Export Grp. v. Reef Indus., Inc. , 54 F.3d 1466, 1469 (9th Cir. 1995) ; see also Fidelity I , 803 F.3d at 1001.
DISCUSSION
On appeal, Fidelity asserts that the district court improperly granted relief from judgment because a court need not have personal jurisdiction over a judgment debtor in order to "merely register" a previously obtained judgment pursuant to § 1963. For the reasons explained below, we agree.
First, neither the relevant statute's plain language nor its purpose supports a personal jurisdiction requirement for registration of a judgment. Section 1963 provides:
A judgment in an action for the recovery of money or property entered in any court of appeals, district court, bankruptcy court, or in the Court of International Trade may be registered by filing a certified copy of the judgment in any other district ... when the judgment has become final by appeal or expiration of the time for appeal or when ordered by the court that entered the judgment for good cause shown. ... A judgment so registered shall have the same effect as a judgment of the district court of the district where registered and may be enforced in like manner.
28 U.S.C. § 1963. Nothing in this provision limits the district courts in which a judgment may be registered to only those that can assert personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtors. Instead, the provision's text is extremely broad, allowing a judgment entered in "any ... district court" to be registered "in any other district." Id. Furthermore, the fact that registering a judgment in another district simply requires "filing a certified copy of the judgment" suggests that the registration process is intended to be simple, essentially an administrative task that does not require any additional judicial action. See id.
Giving effect to this broad statutory language also accords with the provision's *700purpose, which is "to simplify and facilitate collection on valid judgments." Fidelity I , 803 F.3d at 1003 (citation omitted). Section 1963 aims to spare creditors and debtors "the additional cost and harassment of further litigation which would otherwise be required by way of an action on the judgment in a district court other than that where the judgment was originally obtained." S. Rep. No. 83-1917 (1954), as reprinted in 1954 U.S.C.C.A.N. 3142; see also Stanford v. Utley , 341 F. 2d 265, 270 (8th Cir. 1965) ("[T]he purposes of § 1963 were to simplify and facilitate the enforcement of federal judgments, ... to eliminate the necessity and expense of a second lawsuit, and to avoid the impediments, such as diversity of citizenship, which new and distinct federal litigation might otherwise encounter."). Adhering to the statutory text's expansive license to register judgments in other districts effectuates those purposes;1 reading a non-existent jurisdictional requirement into the statute would contravene Congress' intent by placing limits on registration that would make the process more onerous and potentially require additional litigation regarding jurisdiction.2 Thus, we hold that § 1963 itself does not require that a court have personal jurisdiction over a judgment debtor in order to register an existing judgment.
We next turn to the due process basis of the district court's ruling. The district court noted that under this Court's ruling in Fidelity I , registering a judgment in another district pursuant to § 1963 creates a "new judgment" that is treated as if it had been rendered in the new district and that "[a] judgment is void 'if the court that rendered the judgment lacked jurisdiction over the parties ....' " Fid. Nat'l Fin. Inc. , 2017 WL 6049376, at *5 (quoting In re Ctr. Wholesale , 759 F.2d 1440, 1448 (9th Cir. 1985) ). This reasoning, however, is flawed because it incorrectly presumes that constitutional due process protections in the form of a personal jurisdiction requirement attach based on the appearance of a judgment, rather than based on the characteristics of the process that results in that judgment. We must therefore ask *701this crucial constitutional question: does the Due Process Clause require that a court in which a judgment creditor registers a pre-existing federal judgment have personal jurisdiction over judgment debtors at the time of registration? We hold in the negative.
A long line of Supreme Court cases reflects that the personal jurisdiction requirement of due process is grounded in protecting litigants from being unfairly dragged into a faraway court to defend a suit.3 See, e.g. , World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson , 444 U.S. 286, 291-92, 100 S.Ct. 559, 62 L.Ed.2d 490 (1980) ("The concept of minimum contacts ... protects the defendant against the burdens of litigating in a distant or inconvenient forum."). The constitutional standard focuses on "whether the 'quality and nature' of the defendant's activity is such that it is 'reasonable' and 'fair' to require him to conduct his defense in that State," i.e., whether the defendant has sufficient "contacts with the forum state such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend 'traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.' " Kulko v. Superior Court , 436 U.S. 84, 92, 98 S.Ct. 1690, 56 L.Ed.2d 132 (1978) (quoting Int'l Shoe Co. v. Washington , 326 U.S. 310, 316-17, 66 S.Ct. 154, 90 L.Ed. 95 (1945) ).
A key distinction here, however, is that the process of registering a federal judgment in another federal district pursuant to § 1963 does not involve "maintenance of a suit" or "[conducting a] defense." See id. Instead, registration simply requires "filing a certified copy of the judgment."4 See 28 U.S.C. § 1963. Defendants make no substantive argument about why, even in the absence of the central concern animating the due-process-based personal jurisdiction requirement, courts must nonetheless *702have personal jurisdiction to register judgments under 28 U.S.C. § 1963. Constitutional due process requirements depend on the procedures at issue, not semantics-just because a court might be said to "render" a "new" judgment pursuant to registration does not mean that no meaningful distinction exists between, on the one hand, subjecting a person to a lawsuit in which claims are litigated in an ongoing proceeding before a court that may determine or alter substantive rights when it renders a final judgment, and, on the other hand, registering a pre-existing judgment, a process which does not require any party to appear in court and in which no judicial action is taken. See Shaffer , 433 U.S. at 210 n.36, 97 S.Ct. 2569 (holding that, once a judgment is validly rendered against a debtor, the judgment creditor may sue to satisfy the debt with property in a state that lacks personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtor).
Registration of a judgment pursuant to § 1963 can only occur after a court of competent jurisdiction has rendered the original judgment (otherwise there would be no judgment to register). Of course, the court that adjudicated the parties' claims and issued the original judgment must of course satisfy due process requirements such as ensuring personal jurisdiction. Thus, registration will only happen after full due process has been provided during the original adjudication on the merits that determined the parties' substantive rights and obligations. We see no reason why-based on case law, policy, or otherwise-why the simple act of subsequently registering a judgment alters a debtor's substantive rights such that a due process right is triggered.5 To the contrary, registration itself does not change the amount of money or property owed; it only facilitates collection of a pre-existing judgment.
We therefore hold that once a federal court of competent jurisdiction has determined the parties' substantive rights and entered a judgment following a proceeding that accords with due process, that federal judgment should be enforceable in any other federal district by way of the federal judgment registration statute.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, we hold that valid registration of a federal judgment under § 1963 does not require that the court of registration have personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtors. The statute permits a judgment creditor to register a federal judgment "in any other district." 28 U.S.C. § 1963 (emphasis added). Because the Due Process Clause does not require that this broad statutory language be cabined by a jurisdictional limitation, "any ... district" includes districts in which personal jurisdiction over judgment debtors may be lacking. As a result, the Washington Judgment was not void for lack of jurisdiction, and the district court erred by vacating the Second Arizona Judgment on that basis.
REVERSED and REMANDED .