Arkansas

Before transacting business in Arkansas, a foreign limited liability company or a foreign corporation shall register with the Secretary of State.

The following activities, among others, do not constitute “transacting business” in Arkansas:
(1) Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;
(2) Holding meetings of the board of directors, shareholders, manager, or members or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;
(3) Maintaining bank accounts;
(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the corporation’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities;
(5) Selling through independent contractors;
(6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail 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, and security interests in real or personal property;
(8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts;
(9) Owning, without more, real or personal property;
(10) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty (30) days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; or
(11) Transacting business in interstate commerce.

A remote seller and/or marketplace facilitator is an out-of-state seller that has no physical presence in Arkansas and within the current or previous year their sale of tangible personal property, taxable services, a digital code, or specified digital products for delivery into Arkansas exceeded one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or two hundred (200) transactions.