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.]

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