Miss. Code Ann. § 79-14-1005: Activities not constituting doing business.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships
- Chapter 14. Mississippi Uniform Limited Partnership Act
- Article 10. Foreign Limited Partnerships.
(a) Activities of a foreign limited 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 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 partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of this state other than this chapter.
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