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Doing business in New Jersey from another state

If your LLC does business in New Jersey as New Jersey defines it, you register with the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES), Department of the Treasury for $100.

Step 1: put these questions to New Jersey’s law

  1. An employee or contractor works from the state. Ask whether the statute counts work done by people located in the state, and whether employees and independent contractors are treated alike.
  2. You sell to customers there but have no one on the ground. Ask whether the statute treats sales from outside the state differently from activity inside it.
  3. The LLC owns or leases property there. Ask whether owning or leasing real estate is listed as an activity that does, or does not, count.
  4. You open an office, shop or warehouse. Ask whether a fixed place of business is named in the statute. Settle the answer before you sign a lease.
  5. You hold meetings or keep a bank account there. Ask whether the statute lists these ancillary activities, and whether they count by themselves.

The law, as listed in the state’s own sources: New Jersey Revised Uniform LLC Act (P.L.2012, c.50).

Step 2: if the answer is yes

Form
Application for certificate of authority (Public Records Filing, entity type FLC)
Fee
$100
Paper from your home state
Good standing certificate
Agent
A registered agent in New Jersey

Best 3 Foreign Registration Services in New Jersey (2026)

Step 3: if you would rather not file it yourself.

#ServiceService feeNew Jersey feeAgent
1Mainstay Filing$199$100Year one included, then $149/yr
2Registered Agent NJ.org$199$100Year one included, then $99/yr
3New Jersey Registered Agent.co$199$100Year one included, then $99/yr

Service prices read from each provider’s New Jersey page on October 28, 2026. The state fee is the official figure below and is paid to the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES), Department of the Treasury.

New Jersey questions

When does an LLC from another state have to register in New Jersey?

When its activity in New Jersey meets New Jersey’s own definition of doing business. We do not paraphrase it; read it in the law linked below.

What does registering in New Jersey cost?

$100 to the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES), Department of the Treasury.

What is required after registering?

Annual report (NJ Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services), $75 (due: your anniversary month), and a registered agent in New Jersey.

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