Minnesota Statutes Business, Social, and Charitable Organizations (Ch. 300-323A) § 323A.1104. Activities not constituting transacting business

(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, including foreclosing mortgages, canceling contracts for deed, enforcing other security interests on property securing debts, accepting deeds or other instruments of title from debtors in lieu of foreclosure, cancellation or other enforcement, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;

(9) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and is not one in the course of similar transactions;  and

(10) transacting business in interstate commerce.