(a) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership which do not constitute doing business in this state 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 partners; (3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the partnership 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 this state before they become contracts; (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property; (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property; (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions; (10) Owning, without more, property; and (11) Doing business in interstate commerce. (b) A person does not do business in this state solely by being a partner of a foreign limited liability partnership that does business in this state. (c) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of this state other than this chapter.
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