Arizona Laws 29-1108. Activities not constituting transacting business
A. Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute transacting business pursuant to this article include:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 29-1108
- Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Business: includes every trade, occupation and profession. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership or limited partnership that is formed or created under laws other than the laws of this state and that is qualified as a limited liability partnership under those laws. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Limited liability partnership: means a partnership or limited partnership that has filed a statement of qualification under section 29-1101. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Property: means all property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest in such property. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed and encumbrance. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
1. Maintaining, defending or settling an action or proceeding.
2. Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs.
3. Maintaining bank accounts.
4. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the foreign limited liability partnership‘s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories 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 or security interest in real or personal property.
8. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired.
9. Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions of a like manner.
10. Transacting business in interstate commerce.
B. For purposes of this article, the ownership in this state of income producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection A, constitutes transacting business in this state.
C. This section does not apply in determining the 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.