Chen
Chen v. eBay CA1/2
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
The Parties and the Pleadings Plaintiffs and appellants are 10 California residents who are current or former sellers on eBay, all of whom registered for accounts there and had active listings of goods, or sold goods, on eBay’s website.1 Defendant and respondent is eBay, a global e-commerce platform connecting buyers and sellers, alleged by plaintiffs to have well over 100,000,000 active users. Plaintiffs filed their original complaint in August 2015. It was a putative class action that named two defendants, eBay and PayPal, the entity that provided online payment services for individuals and businesses. In November 2015, the case was removed to Federal District Court, and four months later remanded back to superior court. A first amended complaint was filed, and both defendants filed demurrers, rulings on which led to a second amended complaint filed in February 2017, the operative complaint here. The second amended complaint alleged 23 causes of action, 13 against eBay alone, seven against PayPal alone, and three against both defendants. Both defendants demurred again, the upshot of which was an order of August