Debt Registration Center LLC v. Virtue Law Group LLC

I. Background

On May 14, 2024, Plaintiff Debt Registration Center, LLC and Plaintiff Vista Capital Management, LLC (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed the Complaint, asserting claims for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, negligence, conversion, constructive fraud, and accounting against Defendant Virtue Law Group, LLC and Defendant Quantum Processing, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”). (See generally Dkt. 1.) Plaintiffs alleged the court has subject matter jurisdiction over these claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332. (Id. ¶¶ 1-6.) On September 18, 2024, Plaintiffs filed proof of service as to Defendant Quantum Processing, LLC, indicating that a process server delivered the summons and Complaint to Defendant Quantum Processing, LLC’s “corporate specialist” authorized to accept service of process. (Dkt. 13.)

1 After the court issued an order to show cause why this case should not be dismissed for failure to timely serve Defendants under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) on August 14, 2024, (Dkt. 10), Plaintiffs requested additional time to file proof of service in light of settlement discussions between the parties, (Dkt.…