Bright Lite Structures, LLC v. Balform, Ltd.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 BRIGHT LITE STRUCTURES, LLC, Case No. 20-cv-00567-LB

12 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

13 v. DISMISS

14 BALFORM, LTD., Re: ECF No. 17 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 The plaintiff in this case is Bright Lite Structures, LLC (“Bright Lite LLC”), which had a 19 contract with a non-party customer (a Czech company called IDEA Air) to supply airline 20 seatbacks.1 Bright Lite LLC has a UK-registered subsidiary, which manufactures its products, 21 called Bright Lite Structures, Ltd. (“Bright Lite Ltd.”).2 (Bright Lite LLC approves and signs 22 Bright Lite Ltd.’s supplier and customer invoices and orders.3) Bright Lite4 allegedly hired 23

24 1 Compl. – ECF No. 1 at 2 (¶ 2). Citations refer to material in the Electronic Case File (“ECF”); 25 pinpoint citations are to the ECF-generated page numbers at the top of documents. 2 See id. at 2–3 (¶ 6). 26 3 Id. 27 4 When the…