(a) Activities of a foreign entity which do not constitute doing business in Indiana 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 interest holders or governing persons;
- (3) maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
- (4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the entity 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 Indiana before they become contracts;
- (7) making loans or otherwise creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property;
- (8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, or maintaining property so acquired;
- (9) conducting an isolated transaction completed within thirty
- (30) days that is not conducted in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;
- (10) owning, without more, property;
- (11) doing business in interstate commerce; and
- (12) if the entity is a nonprofit corporation, soliciting funds if otherwise authorized by Indiana law.
- (b) A person does not do business in Indiana solely by being an interest holder or governing person of a foreign entity that does business in Indiana.
- (c) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign entity to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of Indiana other than this article.
- (d) The list of activities in subsection (a) is not exhaustive and recodifies, not repeals, those activities previously listed in IC 23-1-49-1 , IC 23-16-10-2 , IC 23-17-26-1 , and IC 23-18-11-2 .
As added by P.L.118-2017, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.52-2018, SEC.16.