Bal

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GURINDER BAL, et al., Case No. 25-cv-05518-RFL

Plaintiffs,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.

OURARING INC., et al., Defendants.

Plaintiffs are ordered to show cause why subject matter jurisdiction exists in this case. The complaint alleges that diversity jurisdiction exists under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. (Dkt. No. 1 ¶ 10.) But Plaintiffs are alleged to be foreign citizens, and one Defendant is also alleged to be a foreign citizen. (Id. ¶¶ 6–8.) While diversity jurisdiction may exist in certain cases involving foreign parties, see 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (diversity requirement met between “citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state” and between “citizens of different States and in which citizens or subjects of a foreign state are additional parties”), there is no diversity jurisdiction in cases involving a foreign citizen plaintiff suing a foreign citizen defendant, even if there is also a citizen defendant present. See Jungil Lee v. ANC Car Rental Corp., 220 Fed. Appx. 493, 495 (9th Cir. 2007) (dismissing case where foreign plaintiffs sued foreign and U.S. citizen defendants); see also Faysound,…