Connecticut General Statutes 34-540 – Activities not constituting transacting business in this state
(a) Any foreign statutory trust may purchase, hold, mortgage, lease, sell and convey real and personal property in this state for its lawful uses and purposes, and may hold such property as it may acquire by foreclosure or otherwise in payment of debts due such statutory trust without such action constituting transacting business in this state for the purposes of sections 34-500 to 34-547, inclusive.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 34-540
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
(b) Without excluding other activities which may not constitute transacting business in this state, a foreign statutory trust shall not be considered to be transacting business in this state, for the purposes of sections 34-500 to 34-547, inclusive, by reason of carrying on in this state any one or more of the following activities: (1) Maintaining, defending or settling any proceeding; (2) holding meetings of its trustees or beneficiaries or carrying on any other activities concerning its internal affairs; (3) maintaining bank accounts; (4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of the foreign statutory trust’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities; (5) selling through independent contractors; (6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts; (7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages and security interests in real or personal property; (8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts; (9) voting securities or other equity ownership interests owned by the foreign statutory trust; (10) conducting an isolated transaction that is complete within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; or (11) transacting business in interstate commerce.
(c) A foreign statutory trust shall not be considered to be transacting business solely because it: (1) Owns a controlling interest in a corporation or foreign corporation that is transacting business in this state; (2) is a limited partner of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership that is transacting business in this state; or (3) is a member or manager of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company that is transacting business in this state.
(d) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign statutory trust to service of process or taxation in this state or to regulation under any other law of this state.