| (1) | The following activities of a filing foreign entity do not constitute doing business in this state:
| (a) | maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding; |
| (b) | carrying on an activity concerning the filing foreign entity's internal affairs, including holding meetings of the filing foreign entity's interest holders or governors; |
| (c) | maintaining an account in a financial institution; |
| (d) | maintaining an office or an agency for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the filing foreign entity's or the foreign limited liability partnership's securities; |
| (e) | maintaining a trustee or a depository for the filing foreign entity's securities; |
| (f) | selling through an independent contractor; |
| (g) | soliciting or obtaining an order by any means if the order requires acceptance outside this state before the order becomes a contract; |
| (h) | creating or acquiring indebtedness, a mortgage, or a security interest in property; |
| (i) | securing or collecting a debt; |
| (j) | enforcing a mortgage or a security interest in a property; |
| (k) | holding, protecting, or maintaining property the filing foreign entity acquires by enforcing a mortgage or a security interest; |
| (l) | conducting an isolated transaction that is outside the scope of the filing foreign entity's ordinary course of business; |
| (m) | owning real property; and |
| (n) | doing business that constitutes interstate commerce. |
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