Register Your Delaware LLC in Florida

How to register your Delaware LLC in Florida

Activities that do NOT require registration in Florida

• Maintaining, defending, or settling a lawsuit or other legal proceeding
• Holding meetings of members or managers, or handling internal company affairs
• Maintaining bank accounts
• Maintaining agents or agencies to transfer, exchange, or register the company's own securities, or trustees or depositaries for those securities
• Selling through independent contractors
• Soliciting or taking orders, by mail or through employees or agents, if the orders must be accepted outside Florida to become contracts
• Creating or acquiring debts, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property
• Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing mortgages and security interests in the property backing them
• Doing business in interstate commerce
• Conducting a single isolated transaction finished within 30 days that is not part of repeated transactions of a like kind
• Owning and controlling a subsidiary corporation or LLC that operates in Florida, and voting that subsidiary's stock or membership interests
• Owning a limited partner interest in a limited partnership doing business in Florida, so long as you do not manage or control the partnership or act as a general partner
• Owning real or personal property, and nothing more

Under Fla. Stat. Section 605.0905, all 13 items. IMPORTANT CARVE-BACK: subsection (3) states that owning income-producing real or tangible personal property in Florida DOES constitute transacting business. Passive ownership is exempt under (1)(m) but the moment the property earns income, such as a rental, registration is affirmatively triggered. Subsection (4) disclaims service of process, taxation and regulation under other Florida law.