diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9ec2c140c..12d33b922 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ Remember to align the itemized text with the first line of an item within a list
   * {func}`jax.numpy.unique` with `return_inverse = True` returns inverse indices
     reshaped to the dimension of the input, following a similar change to
     {func}`numpy.unique` in NumPy 2.0.
+  * {func}`jax.scipy.special.logsumexp` with `return_sign=True` now uses the NumPy 2.0
+    convention for the complex sign, `x / abs(x)`. This is consistent with the behavior
+    of the function in SciPy v1.13.
 
 * Deprecations & Removals
   * A number of previously deprecated functions have been removed, following a
diff --git a/jax/_src/ops/special.py b/jax/_src/ops/special.py
index 525e492ba..72826621a 100644
--- a/jax/_src/ops/special.py
+++ b/jax/_src/ops/special.py
@@ -75,33 +75,22 @@ def logsumexp(a: ArrayLike, axis: Axis = None, b: ArrayLike | None = None,
     a_arr, = promote_args_inexact("logsumexp", a)
     b_arr = a_arr  # for type checking
   pos_dims, dims = _reduction_dims(a_arr, axis)
-  amax = jnp.max(a_arr, axis=dims, keepdims=keepdims)
+  amax = jnp.max(a_arr.real, axis=dims, keepdims=keepdims)
   amax = lax.stop_gradient(lax.select(jnp.isfinite(amax), amax, lax.full_like(amax, 0)))
   amax_with_dims = amax if keepdims else lax.expand_dims(amax, pos_dims)
-  # fast path if the result cannot be negative.
-  if b is None and not np.issubdtype(a_arr.dtype, np.complexfloating):
-    out = lax.add(lax.log(jnp.sum(lax.exp(lax.sub(a_arr, amax_with_dims)),
-                                  axis=dims, keepdims=keepdims)),
-                  amax)
-    sign = jnp.where(jnp.isnan(out), out, 1.0)
-    sign = jnp.where(jnp.isneginf(out), 0.0, sign).astype(out.dtype)
-  else:
-    expsub = lax.exp(lax.sub(a_arr, amax_with_dims))
-    if b is not None:
-      expsub = lax.mul(expsub, b_arr)
-    sumexp = jnp.sum(expsub, axis=dims, keepdims=keepdims)
 
-    sign = lax.stop_gradient(jnp.sign(sumexp))
-    if np.issubdtype(sumexp.dtype, np.complexfloating):
-      if return_sign:
-        sumexp = sign*sumexp
-      out = lax.add(lax.log(sumexp), amax)
-    else:
-      out = lax.add(lax.log(lax.abs(sumexp)), amax)
+  exp_a = lax.exp(lax.sub(a_arr, amax_with_dims.astype(a_arr.dtype)))
+  if b is not None:
+    exp_a = lax.mul(exp_a, b_arr)
+  sumexp = exp_a.sum(axis=dims, keepdims=keepdims)
+  sign = lax.sign(sumexp)
+  if return_sign or not np.issubdtype(a_arr.dtype, np.complexfloating):
+    sumexp = abs(sumexp)
+  out = lax.add(lax.log(sumexp), amax.astype(sumexp.dtype))
+
   if return_sign:
     return (out, sign)
-  if b is not None:
-    if not np.issubdtype(out.dtype, np.complexfloating):
-      with jax.debug_nans(False):
-        out = jnp.where(sign < 0, jnp.array(np.nan, dtype=out.dtype), out)
+  if b is not None and not np.issubdtype(out.dtype, np.complexfloating):
+    with jax.debug_nans(False):
+      out = jnp.where(sign < 0, jnp.array(np.nan, dtype=out.dtype), out)
   return out
diff --git a/tests/lax_scipy_test.py b/tests/lax_scipy_test.py
index e4d0e9015..71bcbe4cd 100644
--- a/tests/lax_scipy_test.py
+++ b/tests/lax_scipy_test.py
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ from jax.scipy import cluster as lsp_cluster
 from jax import config
 config.parse_flags_with_absl()
 
+scipy_version = jtu.parse_version(scipy.version.version)
+
 all_shapes = [(), (4,), (3, 4), (3, 1), (1, 4), (2, 1, 4)]
 compatible_shapes = [[(), ()],
                      [(4,), (3, 4)],
@@ -111,6 +113,8 @@ class LaxBackedScipyTests(jtu.JaxTestCase):
   @jax.numpy_rank_promotion('allow')  # This test explicitly exercises implicit rank promotion.
   def testLogSumExp(self, shapes, dtype, axis,
                     keepdims, return_sign, use_b):
+    if jnp.issubdtype(dtype, jnp.complexfloating) and scipy_version < (1, 13, 0):
+      self.skipTest("logsumexp of complex input uses scipy 1.13.0 semantics.")
     if not jtu.test_device_matches(["cpu"]):
       rng = jtu.rand_some_inf_and_nan(self.rng())
     else:
@@ -151,6 +155,17 @@ class LaxBackedScipyTests(jtu.JaxTestCase):
     tol = {np.float32: 1E-6, np.float64: 1E-14}
     self._CompileAndCheck(lax_fun, args_maker, rtol=tol, atol=tol)
 
+  def testLogSumExpComplexSign(self):
+    # Tests behavior of complex sign, which changed in SciPy 1.13
+    x = jnp.array([1 + 1j, 2 - 1j, -2 + 3j])
+    logsumexp, sign = lsp_special.logsumexp(x, return_sign=True)
+    expected_sumexp = jnp.exp(x).sum()
+    expected_sign = expected_sumexp / abs(expected_sumexp).astype(x.dtype)
+    self.assertEqual(logsumexp.dtype, sign.real.dtype)
+    tol = 1E-4 if jtu.test_device_matches(['tpu']) else 1E-6
+    self.assertAllClose(sign, expected_sign, rtol=tol)
+    self.assertAllClose(sign * np.exp(logsumexp).astype(x.dtype), expected_sumexp, rtol=tol)
+
   def testLogSumExpZeros(self):
     # Regression test for https://github.com/google/jax/issues/5370
     scipy_fun = lambda a, b: osp_special.logsumexp(a, b=b)