North Dakota Century Code Title 10. Corporations § 10-19.1-143. Foreign corporation--Transactions not constituting transacting business

a. Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;

b. Holding meetings of its shareholders or carrying on any other activities concerning its internal activities;

c. Maintaining bank accounts;

d. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the foreign corporation's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories 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, and security interest in real or personal property;

h. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts; or

i. Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like manner.