Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
I can't answer your question from an SEO angle, but I have seen new domain owners impacted by the actions of previous owners, including having their new domains being included on blocklists, marked as fraudulent, on Phishing lists, etc. Though in the instances I've seen, these have been domains that were dropped and then re-registered within a few months.
Full answer by Dynadot: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/112473 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Need it done for your business? UphillTech.
