Activities not constituting transacting business

(a) Activities of a foreign limited partnership that do not constitute transacting business in this State within the meaning of this article include: (1) Maintaining, defending, and settling an action or proceeding; (2) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs; (3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the foreign limited partnership'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) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions of a like manner; and (10) Transacting business in interstate commerce. (b) For purposes of this article, the ownership in this State of income-producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a), constitutes transacting business in this State. (c) This section shall not apply in determining the [contracts] or activities that may subject a foreign limited partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this State.