Ohio Code § 1776.88

§ 1776.88.

(A) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute transacting

business for the purpose of section 1776.86 of the Revised Code include all of the following: (1) Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding; (2) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its

internal affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the

partnership's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect

to those securities; (5) Selling through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or

otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become

contracts; (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, with or without a mortgage or other security

interest in property; (8) Collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property

securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired; (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not

one in the course of similar transactions; (10) Transacting business in interstate commerce. (B) For purposes of section 1776.86 of the Revised Code , the ownership in this state of income-producing real property or tangible personal

property, other than property excluded under division (A) of this section, constitutes

transacting business in this state. (C) 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 any other law of this state.