Cal. Corp. Code § 27505
(a)
(d)
(e) When a covered entity, including a nonresident of this state, engages in conduct prohibited or made actionable by this chapter or any rule or order pursuant to this chapter, whether or not the covered entity has filed a consent to service of process, and personal jurisdiction over the covered entity cannot otherwise be obtained in this state, that conduct shall be considered equivalent to the covered entity’s appointment of the commissioner or the commissioner’s successor in office to be the covered entity’s attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal suit, action, or proceeding against the covered entity or the covered entity’s successor, executor, or administrator that grows out of that conduct and that is brought under this chapter or any rule or order pursuant to this chapter, with the same force and validity as if served on the covered entity personally. Service may be made by leaving a copy of the process in the office of the commissioner, but it is not in effect unless the following conditions are met: