consented to such interpretation when it complied with the statute.[709]
Moreover, even when the cause of action arose in the forum State and
suit was instituted by a corporation chartered therein, a foreign
company retailing clothing in Oklahoma was held immune from service of
process on its president when the latter visited New York on one of his
periodic trips there for the purchase of merchandise. Notwithstanding
that such business trips were made at regular intervals, the Oklahoma
corporation was considered not to be doing business in New York "in such
manner and to such extent as to warrant the inference that it was
present there," especially in view of its having never applied for a
license to do business in New York or consented to suit being brought
against it there, or established therein an office or appointed a
resident agent.[710]

Nor would the mere presence within its territorial limits of an agent,
officer, or stockholder, upon whom service might readily be had, be
effective without more to enable a State to acquire jurisdiction over a
foreign corporation. Consequently, service of process on the president
of a foreign corporation in a State where he was temporarily and
casually present and where the corporation did no business and had no
property was fruitless.[711] Likewise, service on a New York director
of a Virginia corporation was not sufficient to bring the corporation
into the New York courts when, at the time of service, the corporation
was not doing business in New York, and the director was not there
officially representing the corporation in its business.[712] On
occasion, an officer of a corporation may temporarily be in a State or
even temporarily reside therein; but if he is not there for the purpose
of transacting business for the corporation, or vested with authority by
the corporation to transact business in such State, his presence affords
no basis for the exercise of jurisdiction over such nonresident
employer, and any decree resulting from service upon such officer is
violative of due process.[713] However, a foreign insurance corporation
which had ceased to sell insurance in Tennessee but which had sent a
special agent there to adjust a loss under a policy previously issued in
that State could not, it was held, constitutionally object when a
judgment on that claim was obtained by service on that agent.[714]

Inasmuch as a State need not permit a foreign corporation to do domestic