16-1a-506. Activities that do not constitute doing business.
(1) The following activities of a filing foreign entity do not constitute doing business in this state: maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding; carrying on an activity concerning the filing foreign entity's internal affairs, including holding meetings of the filing foreign entity's interest holders or governors; maintaining an account in a financial institution; maintaining an office or an agency for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the filing foreign entity's or the foreign limited liability partnership's securities; maintaining a trustee or a depository for the filing foreign entity's securities; selling through an independent contractor; soliciting or obtaining an order by any means if the order requires acceptance outside this state before the order becomes a contract; creating or acquiring indebtedness, a mortgage, or a security interest in property; securing or collecting a debt; enforcing a mortgage or a security interest in a property; holding, protecting, or maintaining property the filing foreign entity acquires by enforcing a mortgage or a security interest; conducting an isolated transaction that is outside the scope of the filing foreign entity's ordinary course of business; owning real property; and doing business that constitutes interstate commerce.
(2) A person does not do business in this state by being an interest holder or a governor of a foreign entity that does business in this state.
(3) This section does not apply when determining whether the contacts or activities subject a filing foreign entity to service of process, taxation, or regulation under a law of this state outside of this chapter.