Vermont Statutes Title 11. Corporations, Partnerships and Associations, § 4113. Activities not constituting transacting business

(1) maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;

(2) holding meetings of its members or managers 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 foreign company'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 electronic means, or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;

(7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property;

(8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;

(9) owning real or personal property;

(10) conducting an isolated transaction that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;  or

(11) transacting business in interstate commerce.