Citcon USA, LLC v. MaplePay Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 CITCON USA, LLC, Case No. 19-cv-02112-NC 11 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART v. MOTION TO DISMISS 13 MAPLEPAY INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 44 14 Defendants. 15 16 Plaintiff Citcon brings two claims for trade secret misappropriation against four individuals — Hang “Hank” Miao, Ran “Ryan” Zheng, Fangwei “Simon” Han, and Angela Wang — and two corporations, MaplePay, Inc., and Dino Lab, Inc. See Dkt. No. 16 Second Amended Complaint (“SAC”). Citcon amended its original Complaint to add defendants Zheng, Han, and Dino Lab. See Dkt. No. 12. Later, Citcon amended the complaint a second time to include Wang as a defendant. See SAC. The Second Amended Complaint now faces a motion to dismiss on multiple grounds. Dkt. No. 44 (“MTD”). The central issues are (1) whether this Court has personal jurisdiction over MaplePay, Zheng, Han, and Wang, (2) whether Citcon’s claims…