Activities not constituting doing business.

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  • (1) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership which do not constitute doing business in this state under this part include:
    • (a) maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, and settling an action or proceeding;
    • (b) carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including meetings of its partners;
    • (c) maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
    • (d) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the foreign limited liability partnership or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
    • (e) selling through independent contractors;
    • (f) soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts;
    • (g) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property;
    • (h) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, or maintaining property;
    • (i) conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions;
    • (j) owning, without more, property; and
    • (k) doing business in interstate commerce.
  • (2) A person does not do business in this state solely by being a partner of a foreign limited liability partnership that does business in this state.
  • (3) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of this state other than this chapter.




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