Sacramento Suburban Water District v. 3M Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 1] Sacramento Suburban Water District, No. 2:22-cv-01005-KJM-JDP Plaintiff, ORDER v. The 3M Company, et al., Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff Sacramento Suburban Water District (the District) brings this water contamination action against defendants the 3M Company, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company (Du Pont), and the Chemours Company. 3M moves to dismiss this action for lack of personal jurisdiction and failure to state a claim. Du Pont and Chemours move to dismiss for lack 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, the court denies without prejudice defendants’ motions to dismiss. 26 I. BACKGROUND The District is a public drinking…