Sacramento Suburban Water District v. 3M Company

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 1] Sacramento Suburban Water District, No. 2:22-cv-01005-KJM-JDP 12 Plaintiff, ORDER 13 v. 14 The 3M Company, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 18 Plaintiff Sacramento Suburban Water District (the District) brings this water 19 | contamination action against defendants the 3M Company, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and 20 | Company (Du Pont), and the Chemours Company. 3M moves to dismiss this action for lack of 21 | personal jurisdiction and failure to state a claim. Du Pont and Chemours move to dismiss for lack 22 | of personal jurisdiction. Because there are insufficient facts to determine whether this court can 23 | exercise personal jurisdiction over defendants, the court grants the District’s request for 24 | jurisdictional discovery. Given that the court’s jurisdiction over defendants remains unsettled, 25 | the court denies without prejudice defendants’ motions to dismiss. 26 | I. BACKGROUND 27 The District is a public drinking…