N.D. Cent. Code § 10-32.1-82

10-32.1-82. Foreign limited liability company - Transactions not constituting

transacting business.

1. A foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting business in

this state for the purposes of this chapter solely by reason of carrying on in this state

any one or more of the following, including:

a. Maintaining or defending any action or suit or any administrative or arbitration

proceeding, or effecting the settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or

disputes;

b. Holding meetings of its managers, governors, or members or carrying on other

activities concerning its internal affairs;

c. Maintaining bank accounts;

d. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of its

securities, or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositories with relation to

its securities;

e. Holding title to and managing real or personal property, or any interest therein,

situated in this state, as executor of the will or administrator of the estate of any

decedent, as trustee of any trust, or as guardian of any person or conservator of

the estate of any person;

f. Making, participating in, or investing in loans or creating, as borrower or lender, or

otherwise acquiring indebtedness or mortgages or other security interests in real

or personal property;

g. Securing or collecting its debts or enforcing any rights in property securing its

debts; or

h. Conducting an isolated transaction completed within a period of thirty days and

not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of like nature.

2. For purposes of sections 10-32.1-72 through 10-32.1-85, the ownership in this state of

income-producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property

excluded under subsection 1, constitutes transacting business in this state.

3. 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 law

of this state other than this chapter.