(1) The following activities of a filing foreign entity do not constitute doing business in this state:
(a) maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding;
(b) carrying on an activity concerning the filing foreign entity's internal affairs, including holding meetings of the filing foreign entity's interest holders or governors;
(c) maintaining an account in a financial institution;
(d) maintaining an office or an agency for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the filing foreign entity's or the foreign limited liability partnership's securities;
(e) maintaining a trustee or a depository for the filing foreign entity's securities;
(f) selling through an independent contractor;
(g) soliciting or obtaining an order by any means if the order requires acceptance outside this state before the order becomes a contract;
(h) creating or acquiring indebtedness, a mortgage, or a security interest in property;
(i) securing or collecting a debt;
(j) enforcing a mortgage or a security interest in a property;
(k) holding, protecting, or maintaining property the filing foreign entity acquires by enforcing a mortgage or a security interest;
(l) conducting an isolated transaction that is outside the scope of the filing foreign entity's ordinary course of business;
(m) owning real property; and
(n) doing business that constitutes interstate commerce.
(2) A person does not do business in this state by being an interest holder or a governor of a foreign entity that does business in this state.
(3) This section does not apply when determining whether the contacts or activities subject a filing foreign entity to service of process, taxation, or regulation under a law of this state outside of this chapter.