NY registered agent
New York. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the New York code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what New York does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... (b) No domestic or foreign corporation may be formed or authorized ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
The New York annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year New York wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$9 a year, give or take nothing.
... for filing a Biennial Statement for a business corporation or ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Yearly report, corporation
$9 a year, give or take nothing.
... statement or amendment pursuant to section four hundred eight of this chapter with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
What New York had in mind
What is required
The New York code, more or less word for word:
... The agent shall be a natural person who is a resident of or has a business address in this state or a domestic corporation or foreign corporation of any type or kind formed, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(b)
What New York does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Also, apparently
... after the filing of a certificate of resignation for receipt of process with the secretary of state, its authority to do business in this state shall be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
A penalty, in dollars
... notice of delinquency has been mailed... Such delinquency shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a New York company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.