Langer Juice Company, Inc v. Zucarmex USA

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10

11 LANGER JUICE COMPANY, INC., Case No. 2:21-CV-02462-AB-PVC

12 Plaintiffs,

13 ORDER DENYING MOTION TO v. REMAND 14

15 ZUCARMEX USA, INC.,

16 Defendants. 17 Before the Court is Plaintiff Langer Juice Company, Inc.’s (“Plaintiff”) Motion 18 to Remand. (Dkt. No. 10, “Motion” or “Mot.”). Defendant Zucrum Foods, LLC, 19 doing business as Zucarmex USA, (“Defendant”), opposed (Dkt. No. 13, “Opp’n”), 20 and Plaintiff replied (Dkt. No. 15, “Reply”). The Court took the matters raised with 21 respect to the Motion under submission without oral argument pursuant to Local Rule 22 7.15. For the following reasons, the Court DENIES the Motion. 23 24 I. BACKGROUND 25 A. Factual Background 26 Plaintiff alleged in their Complaint (Dkt. No. 1-1 Exh. A, “Complaint” or 27 “Compl.”), that in August 2020, they purchased liquid sugar from the Defendant to 28 add to the juice their company makes, however the batch of juice was contaminated 1 by the sugar, resulting in an improper smell that…