Nutanix, Inc. v. Tessell, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 NUTANIX, INC., Case No. 24-cv-01729-AMO
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
v. MOTION TO COMPEL
ARBITRATION
TESSELL, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 23 Defendant.
12 Defendant Tessell, Inc.’s (“Tessell”) Motion to Compel Arbitration was heard before this Court on December 20, 2024. Having read the papers filed by the parties and carefully considered their arguments therein and those made at the hearing, as well as the relevant legal authority, the Court hereby GRANTS Tessell’s Motion, for the following reasons. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Nutanix, Inc. (“Nutanix”) provides flexible cloud platform infrastructure for business applications. Compl. (ECF 1) ¶ 1. Defendant Tessell is a web-based software-as-a- service (“SaaS”) competitor offering a competing cloud-based database software management product. Compl. ¶ 1. Tessell’s three founders, Bala Kuchibhotla, Kamaldeep Khanuja, and Bakul Banthia (collectively, “KKB”) are all former…