They key, as Judge Mooney indicated, is that the business not have any commercial connection to California, which basically means that nothing occurs in California including that no operational direction comes from California.

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Last year, Bank of America made considerable operational strides in that direction when, having already severed ties to mortgage brokers, it closed down its correspondent mortgage business after failing to sell it.

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