Activities not constituting doing business

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Activities of a foreign limited partnership which do not constitute doing business in this state under this article include:

  1. Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding;
  2. Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its partners;
  3. Maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
  4. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the partnership or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
  5. Selling through independent contractors;
  6. Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts;
  7. Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property;
  8. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property;
  9. Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions;
  10. Owning, without more, property; and
  11. Doing business in interstate commerce.

A person does not do business in this state solely by being a partner of a foreign limited partnership that does business in this state.

This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of this state other than this chapter.


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