New Mexico Statutes Chapter 53. Corporations § 53-8-64. Admission of foreign corporation

A. No foreign corporation has the right to conduct affairs in New Mexico until it has procured a certificate of authority to do so from the corporation commission [secretary of state]. No foreign corporation is entitled to procure a certificate of authority under the Nonprofit Corporation Act to conduct in New Mexico any affairs which a corporation organized under that act is prohibited from conducting. A foreign corporation shall not be denied a certificate of authority by reason of the fact that the laws of the state or country under which the corporation is organized governing its organization and internal affairs differ from the laws of this state. Nothing in the Nonprofit Corporation Act shall be construed to authorize this state to regulate the organization or the internal affairs of such corporation.

B. Without excluding other activities which may not constitute conducting affairs in New Mexico, a foreign corporation shall not be considered to be conducting affairs in this state, for the purposes of the Nonprofit Corporation Act, by reason of carrying on in this state any one or more of the following activities: