SECTIONS 25550 - California Statutes

CORPORATIONS CODE

SECTION 25550

25550. When any person, including any nonresident of this state,
engages in conduct prohibited or made actionable by this law or any
rule or order hereunder, whether or not he has filed a consent to
service of process under subdivision (h) of Section 25102, Section
25165, or Section 25240, and personal jurisdiction over him cannot
otherwise be obtained in this state, that conduct shall be considered
equivalent to his appointment of the commissioner or his successor
in office to be his attorney to receive service of any lawful process
in any noncriminal suit, action, or proceeding against him or his
successor, executor, or administrator which grows out of that conduct
and which is brought under this law or any rule or order hereunder,
with the same force and validity as if served on him personally.
Service may be made by leaving a copy of the process in the office of
the commissioner, but it is not effective unless (a) the plaintiff,
who may be the commissioner in a suit, action, or proceeding
instituted by him, forthwith sends notice of the service and a copy
of the process by registered or certified mail to the defendant or
respondent at his last known address or takes other steps which are
reasonably calculated to give actual notice, and (b) the plaintiff's
affidavit of compliance with this section is filed in the case on or
before the return day of the process, if any, or within such further
time as the court allows.