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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 607
FLORIDA BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT
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F.S. 607.1501
607.1501 Authority of foreign corporation to transact business required; activities not constituting transacting business.—
(1) A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the department.
(2) The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (1):
(a) Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling any proceeding.
(b) Carrying on any activity concerning the internal affairs of the foreign corporation, including holding meetings of its shareholders or board of directors.
(c) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions.
(d) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the foreign corporation or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities.
(e) Selling through independent contractors.
(f) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees, agents, or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.
(g) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property.
(h) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts, or holding, protecting, or maintaining property so acquired.
(i) Transacting business in interstate commerce.
(j) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature.
(k) Owning and controlling a subsidiary corporation incorporated in or limited liability company formed in, or transacting business within, this state; or voting the shares of any such subsidiary corporation or voting the membership interests of any such limited liability company, which it has lawfully acquired.
(l) Owning a limited partnership interest in a limited partnership that is transacting business within this state, unless the limited partner manages or controls the partnership or exercises the powers and duties of a general partner.
(m) Owning, protecting, and maintaining, without more, real or personal property.
(3) The list of activities in subsection (2) is not an exhaustive list of activities that do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (1).
(4) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign corporation to service of process, taxation, or regulation under the law of this state other than this chapter.
History.—s. 136, ch. 89-154; s. 197, ch. 2019-90; s. 54, ch. 2020-32.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 607.1501
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 607.1501.

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Cases Citing Statute 607.1501

Total Results: 6

Spa Creek Servs., LLC v. S.W. Cole, Inc.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2017-10-27

Citation: 239 So. 3d 730

Snippet: to be transacting business. §§ 605.0905(1)(a), 607.1501(2)(a), Fla. Stat. (2014). Neither is winding up

Bank of America, N.A. v. Nash

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2016-05-06

Citation: 200 So. 3d 131, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 6973, 2016 WL 2596015

Snippet: 0022, Fla. Stat. (2005). Likewise, while section 607.1501(1), Florida Statutes (2005), prohibits a foreign

770 PPR, LLC v. TJCV Land Trust

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2010-03-10

Citation: 30 So. 3d 613, 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 2945, 2010 WL 785864

Snippet: laws other than the laws of this state." Section 607.1501(1), Florida Statutes, states that "[a] foreign

Selepro, Inc. v. Church

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2009-09-23

Citation: 17 So. 3d 1267, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 14085, 2009 WL 3018149

Snippet: court action. The defendants respond that sections 607.1501 and 607.1502 prevent a foreign corporation without

Algernon Blair Cont. v. Hughes Supply

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1996-11-22

Citation: 684 So. 2d 223, 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 12303, 1996 WL 672983

Snippet: agent in this state for service of process.[4] § 607.1501-.1507, Fla. Stat. (1995). Certainly, the language

Suffolk Fed. Credit Union v. Continental

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1995-12-20

Citation: 664 So. 2d 1153, 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 12999, 1995 WL 749913

Snippet: [5] Reversed and remanded. NOTES [1] Section 607.1501, Florida Statutes (1993), itemizes a number of