1. For the purposes of this chapter, the following activities do not constitute doing business in this State:

(a) Maintaining, defending or settling any proceeding;

(b) Holding meetings of the board of directors or stockholders or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;

(c) Maintaining accounts in banks or credit unions;

(d) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of the corporation’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities;

(e) Making sales through independent contractors;

(f) Soliciting or receiving orders outside of this State through or in response to letters, circulars, catalogs or other forms of advertising, accepting those orders outside of this State and filling them by shipping goods into this State;

(g) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages and security interests in real or personal property;

(h) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts;

(i) Owning, without more, real or personal property;

(j) Isolated transactions completed within 30 days and not a part of a series of similar transactions;

(k) The production of motion pictures as defined in NRS 231.020;

(l) Transacting business as an out-of-state depository institution pursuant to the provisions of chapters 657 to 671, inclusive, of NRS; and

(m) Transacting business in interstate commerce.

2. The list of activities in subsection 1 is not exhaustive.

3. A person who is not doing business in this State within the meaning of this section need not qualify or comply with any provision of this chapter, chapter 645A or 645B of NRS or title 55 of NRS unless the person:

(a) Maintains an office in this State for the transaction of business;

(b) Solicits or accepts deposits in the State, except pursuant to the provisions of chapter 666 or 666A of NRS;

(c) Solicits business for the activities of a mortgage company as defined in NRS 645B.0127; or

(d) Arranges a mortgage loan secured by real property which is not commercial property as defined in NRS 645B.01047.

4. The fact that a person is not doing business in this State within the meaning of this section:

(a) Does not affect the determination of whether any court, administrative agency or regulatory body in this State may exercise personal jurisdiction over the person in any civil action, criminal action, administrative proceeding or regulatory proceeding; and

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, does not affect the applicability of any other provision of law with respect to the person and may not be offered as a defense or introduced in evidence in any civil action, criminal action, administrative proceeding or regulatory proceeding to prove that the person is not doing business in this State, including, without limitation, any civil action, criminal action, administrative proceeding or regulatory proceeding involving an alleged violation of chapter 597, 598 or 598A of NRS.

5. As used in this section and for the purposes of NRS 80.016, “deposits” means demand deposits, savings deposits and time deposits, as those terms are defined in chapter 657 of NRS.

(Added to NRS by 1989, 980; A 1991, 1244; 1993, 982; 1995, 1561; 1997, 708; 1999, 1455, 1597, 3803, 3814; 2001, 282, 1380, 3199; 2003, 3113; 2007, 963; 2017, 3084, effective January 1, 2020)