Delivery by hand of a copy of any process against a foreign corporation (a) to any officer of the corporation or its general manager in this state, or if the corporation is a bank to a cashier or an assistant cashier, (b) to any natural person designated by it as agent for the service of process, or (c), if the corporation has designated a corporate agent, to any person named in the latest certificate of the corporate agent filed pursuant to Section 1505 shall constitute valid service on the corporation. A copy of the statement and designation, or a copy of the latest statement filed pursuant to Section 2117, certified by the Secretary of State, is sufficient evidence of the appointment of an agent for the service of process.
Cal. Corp. Code § 2110
Foreign Corporations
Known as the General Corporation Law
The act spans §§ 100–2319 (398 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Nuance Communications, Inc. v. Abbyy Software House (2010)
Most recently applied in Nuance Communications, Inc. v. Abbyy Software House (November 2010)
Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 438, Sec. 2.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.