Business Entity Lookup: New Jersey, Kentucky, North Dakota (Secretary of State)

Check whether a company is registered in New Jersey, Kentucky or North Dakota, and get its official entity ID, type, status and dates straight from the state registry. Search by business name (partial names work) or by the state's entity number. Each run hits the live state site, so you get the current record rather than a stale bulk copy.

Good for: KYB / vendor onboarding checks, verifying a customer's legal name and ID, CRM enrichment, due-diligence spot checks, and spotting dissolved or "not in good standing" counterparties.

What you get (one row per entity)

Field	Example	NJ	KY	ND
jurisdiction	KY	yes	yes	yes
entityId	0027738	yes (10-digit)	yes	yes
name	KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN OF ASHLAND, INC. (the name that matched)	yes	yes	yes
currentName	current legal name, or the owner of an assumed name	-	yes*	-
status	Active, Inactive - Involuntary	no, see below	yes	yes
standing	Good, Not Good Standing	-	yes*	yes
entityType	Domestic Limited Liability Company	yes	yes	yes
domesticOrForeign	domestic / foreign	yes	yes	mostly
filingDate	1971-06-28 (ISO)	-	yes*	yes
formationDate	1889-09-20 (ISO)	yes (incorporation date)	yes* (domestic)	-
query, sourceUrl, retrievedAt	provenance for audit trails	yes	yes	yes

* Kentucky fields marked * come from the entity profile page (includeDetails, on by default).

New Jersey limitation (be aware): NJ's free public registry search does not show status. NJ sells status as a paid per-entity report, and this actor does not buy it. NJ rows have status: null.

Privacy by design: no personal data

The actor returns entity-level facts only. It never outputs registered-agent names, officers, organizers, incorporators, members, or any street address, even where the state site shows them. Output is limited to a fixed whitelist of fields, and a daily self-test fails if any other key appears. If you need officer or agent data, this is not the right tool.

Input

{
  "queries": ["acme", "0027738"],
  "states": ["NJ", "KY", "ND"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25,
  "activeOnly": false,
  "includeDetails": true
}

• queries: names or entity numbers, one per line. Numbers are routed to ID lookup where the state supports it.
• maxResultsPerQuery: hard cap per query per state, which also caps your cost.
• activeOnly: applies to KY and ND (NJ does not expose status).
• minDelaySecs (default 3, minimum 2): seconds between requests to the same state site.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay only for entity rows returned (see the Store listing for the current price). Searches that return nothing cost only the tiny actor-start fee.

Speed and politeness

The actor makes one request at a time per state, waits at least 2 to 3 seconds between requests, and backs off on errors. If a state site refuses access, the actor stops querying that state and logs it. It never tries to get around a block or a CAPTCHA. Rough speed: NJ and ND about 10 to 20 names per minute; Kentucky with details is about 1 entity row every 3 seconds.

Reliability

A canary run each day looks up one known entity per state and checks every expected field. If a state site changes, the maintainer is alerted the same day.

Notes

• Data comes from public state registries: NJ DORES (njportal.com), KY Secretary of State (sosbes.sos.ky.gov), and ND Secretary of State FirstStop (firststop.sos.nd.gov). It is not an official certificate of good standing; order those from the state.
• Kentucky and North Dakota results include assumed names / trade names on file, as the state lists them.

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