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(a) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership which do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of this subchapter include:
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(1) maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding;
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(2) holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs;
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(3) maintaining bank accounts;
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(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;
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(5) selling through independent contractors;
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(6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside the Virgin Islands before they become contracts;
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(7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property;
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(8) securing or collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;
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(9) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and is not one in the course of similar transactions of like nature; and
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(10) transacting business in interstate commerce.
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(b) For purposes of this subchapter, the ownership in the Virgin Islands of income-producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a) of this section, constitutes transacting business in the Virgin Islands.
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(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 the Virgin Islands.