Indiana § 23-0.5-5-5 Activities not constituting doing business in Indiana

Indiana Statutes

§ 23-0.5-5-5 — Activities not constituting doing business in Indiana

Indiana § 23-0.5-5-5

Title 23BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

Art. 0.5UNIFORM BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS CODE

Ch. 5Foreign Entities

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Ind. Code § 23-0.5-5-5 (2026).

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(a)Activities of a foreign entity which do not constitute doing business in Indiana 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 interest holders or governing persons;

(3)maintaining accounts in financial institutions;

(4)maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the entity 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 Indiana before they become contracts;

(7)making loans or otherwise creating or acquiring inde

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(a) Activities of a foreign entity which do not
constitute doing business in Indiana 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 interest holders or governing
persons;
(3) maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
(4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and
registration of securities of the entity 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 Indiana before they become contracts;
(7) making loans or otherwise creating or acquiring indebtedness,
mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property;
(8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security
interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting,
or maintaining property so acquired;
(9) conducting an isolated transaction completed within thirty
(30) days that is not conducted in the course of repeated
transactions of a like nature;
(10) owning, without more, property;
(11) doing business in interstate commerce; and
(12) if the entity is a nonprofit corporation, soliciting funds if
otherwise authorized by Indiana law.
(b) A person does not do business in Indiana solely by being an
interest holder or governing person of a foreign entity that does
business in Indiana.
(c) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or
activities that may subject a foreign entity to service of process,
taxation, or regulation under law of Indiana other than this article.
(d) The list of activities in subsection (a) is not exhaustive and
recodifies, not repeals, those activities previously listed in IC 23-1-49-1, IC 23-16-10-2, IC 23-17-26-1, and IC 23-18-11-2.