Iowa Code Title XII. Business Entities [Chs. 486-504C] § 489.905. Activities not constituting doing business in this state

a. Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling a proceeding.

b. Carrying on any activity concerning the internal affairs of the foreign limited liability company, including holding meetings of its members or managers.

c. Maintaining accounts in financial institutions.

d. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the foreign limited liability company or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities.

e. Selling through independent contractors.

f. Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.

g. Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property.

h. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property so acquired.

i. Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions.

j. Owning, protecting, and maintaining property.

k. Doing business in interstate commerce.