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What are Repeated and Successive Transactions?

Seal of the California Secretary of State, with which a foreign entity must register once it enters into repeated and successive transactions within the stateIn Doing Business in CA? Be Sure to Register, I discussed when a foreign entity must register to do business in California. The test is whether the entity has transacted intrastate business, i.e., has engaged in repeated and successive transactions of business within the state. This post explores the meaning of “repeated and successive transactions“.

Repeated and Successive Transactions” Not Defined

The term “repeated and successive transactions” appears in Corporations Code Subsection 191(a). Unfortunately, that term is not defined. However, another portion of Section 191 provides a bit of help. (more…)