(a) Without excluding other activities which may not constitute transacting business in this state, a foreign limited partnership shall not be deemed to be transacting business in this State, for purposes of this chapter, solely by reason of carrying on in this State any one or more of the following activities:

1. (1) maintaining, defending, or participating in any action, suit, or proceeding whether judicial, administrative, arbitrative, or otherwise, or effecting the settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or disputes;
2. (2) holding meetings of its partners or of committees thereof or carrying on other activities concerning its internal affairs;
3. (3) maintaining bank accounts;
4. (4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of its securities, or appointing and maintaining trustees;
5. (5) borrowing or lending or acquiring indebtedness or mortgages or other security interests in real or personal property;
6. (6) securing or collecting debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the same;
7. (7) effecting a transaction in interstate or foreign commerce;
8. (8) owning or controlling a corporation incorporated in or transacting business within this State;
9. (9) conducting within this State an isolated transaction which is completed within a period of one hundred and eighty days and which is not in the course of a series or number of repeated transactions;
10. (10) effecting sales through independent contractors; or
11. (11) soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, where such orders require acceptance without this State before becoming binding contracts.