DOING-BUSINESS STATUTE

doing-business statute.A state law defining the acts that constitute undertaking business there,

usu. for the purpose of establishing the circumstances under which the state’s courts may exercise

personal jurisdiction over a nonresident. See MINIMUM CONTACTS; LONG-ARM STATUTE.

[Cases: Courts    12(2). C.J.S. Courts §§ 39, 44.] [Blacks Law 8th]