1. (a) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute the transaction of business include:

   1. (1) Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding;
   2. (2) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its affairs;
   3. (3) Maintaining bank accounts;
   4. (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the partnership's own securities, or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
   5. (5) Selling through independent contractors;
   6. (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees, agents, or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;
   7. (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, with or without a mortgage, or other security interest in property;
   8. (8) Collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;
   9. (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions; and
   10. (10) Transacting business in interstate commerce.
2. (b) The ownership in this State of income-producing real property or income-producing tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a), constitutes the transaction of business in this State.
3. (c) This section shall not apply to a determination of contracts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this State.

[L 2000, c 218, pt of §1; am L 2002, c 130, §90]