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Title 2.6.TITLE 2.6. CALIFORNIA REVISED UNIFORM LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT
Art. 8.ARTICLE 8. Foreign Limited Liability Companies
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(a)A foreign limited liability company that enters into repeated and successive transactions of business in this state, other than in interstate or foreign commerce, is considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article.
(b)Without excluding other activities that may not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article, activities of a foreign limited liability company that do not constitute transacting intrastate business in this state include all of the following:
(1)Maintaining or defending any
action or suit or any administrative or arbitration proceeding, or effecting the settlement of those, or the settlement of claims or disputes.
(2)Carrying on any activity concerning its
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(a)
A foreign limited liability company that enters into repeated and successive transactions of business in this state, other than in interstate or foreign commerce, is considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article.
(b)
Without excluding other activities that may not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article, activities of a foreign limited liability company that do not constitute transacting intrastate business in this state include all of the following:
(1)
Maintaining or defending any
action or suit or any administrative or arbitration proceeding, or effecting the settlement of those, or the settlement of claims or disputes.
(2)
Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its members or managers.
(3)
Maintaining accounts in financial institutions.
(4)
Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the limited liability company’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities.
(5)
Selling through independent contractors.
(6)
Soliciting or procuring orders, whether
by mail or electronic means or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.
(7)
Creating or acquiring indebtedness, evidences of indebtedness, mortgages, liens, or security interests 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, or maintaining property so acquired.
(9)
Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 180 days and is not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a like nature.
(10)
Transacting business in interstate
commerce.
(c)
Without excluding other activities that may not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article, a foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state merely because its subsidiary transacts intrastate business in this state, or merely because of its status as any one or more of the following:
(1)
A shareholder of a domestic corporation.
(2)
A shareholder of a foreign corporation transacting intrastate business.
(3)
A limited partner of a foreign limited partnership transacting intrastate business.
(4)
A limited partner of a domestic limited partnership.
(5)
A member or manager of a foreign limited liability company transacting intrastate business.
(6)
A member or manager of a domestic limited liability company.
(d)
A person shall not be deemed to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article merely because of its status as a member or manager of a domestic limited liability company or a foreign limited liability company registered to transact intrastate business in this state.
(e)
This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability company to service
of process, taxation, or regulation under the law of this state other than this article.