2015 Utah Code
Title 48 - Unincorporated Business Entity Act
Chapter 1d - Utah Uniform Partnership Act
Part 12 - Foreign Limited Liability Partnerships
Section 1205 - Activities not constituting doing business.

48-1d-1205. Activities not constituting doing business.

• (1) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership which do not constitute doing business in this state under this part include:
  • (a) maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, and settling an action or proceeding;
  • (b) carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including meetings of its partners;
  • (c) maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
  • (d) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the foreign limited liability partnership or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
  • (e) selling through independent contractors;
  • (f) soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts;
  • (g) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property;
  • (h) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, or maintaining property;
  • (i) conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions;
  • (j) owning, without more, property; and
  • (k) doing business in interstate commerce.

• (2) A person does not do business in this state solely by being a partner of a foreign limited liability partnership that does business in this state.

• (3) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of this state other than this chapter.

Enacted by Chapter 412, 2013 General Session