Samuels

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANDREW SAMUELS, Case No. 23-cv-06492-VC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

v. ALTERNATIVE SERVICE AND

DENYING ENTRY OF DEFAULT

LIDO DAO, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 65 Defendants.

Samuels’s Motion for Alternative Service is granted, and his Motion for Entry of Default is denied. Although Samuels contends that service on AH Capital Management was proper for effectuating service against Lido DAO based on Samuels’s allegations that AH Capital Management is a general partner of Lido DAO, the issue of whether Lido DAO is a general partnership and whether AH Capital Management is a general partner are merits questions that have yet to be adjudicated. But Samuels also attempted to serve Lido DAO in three alternative ways: (1) he mailed a copy of the complaint and summons to the address associated with the entity that runs Lido DAO’s user interface, (2) he sent the complaint and summons to the DAO’s general counsel via email and social media, and (3) he posted the complaint and summons on Lido DAO’s Governance Forum. As another court in this district has already held, service on a DAO…