It's My Seat, Inc. v. Hartford Capital LLC

Case 2:22-cv-02192-ODW-AFM Document Filed 08/17/ Page 1 of Page ID #:711

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11 IT’S MY SEAT, INC., et al., Case № 2:22-cv-02192-ODW (AFMx)

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART MOTION TO 14 H ARTFORD CAPITAL LLC, et al., DISMISS [18]; AND DENYING

MOTION TO DISMISS [31]

15 Defendants.

16 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiffs It’s My Seat, Inc. and Vahe Shahinian (together, “Plaintiffs”) have 19 twice initiated litigation in state court based on the same fraud and breach of contract 20 allegations. The first case Plaintiffs filed was removed to this Court, It’s My Seat, Inc. 21 v. Hartford Capital, LLC, No. 2:20-cv-06378-ODW (AFMx) (C.D. Cal. filed July 17, 22 2020) (hereinafter, “It’s My Seat I”), and the Court eventually dismissed all but one 23 defendant due to Plaintiffs’ failure to serve them. After the deadline to add parties 24 expired in that case, Plaintiffs filed this second, nearly identical, action in state court…