Serje

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MAURICIO PABA SERJE, et al., Case No. 19-cv-07415-VC

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

RAPPI, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 41 Defendants.

This is a misappropriation of trade secrets case, with one claim under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and one claim under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Colombian plaintiffs Mauricio Paba Serje, Jose David Mendoza Macanaz, and Jorge Uribe allege that a Colombian citizen, Simón Borrero Posada, acquired their trade secrets when they hired his Bogotá-based digital services company, Imaginamos, to help them develop their phone application, Kuiky. Borrero then allegedly misappropriated those trade secrets to create his own phone application, Rappi. Rappi first launched in Colombia and is now available throughout Latin America (but not the United States). It connects users to various products and services, like groceries or food from restaurants, which independent contractors deliver to Rappi users. The Rappi defendants are Borrero; Rappi S.A.S., a Colombian corporation headquartered in Bogotá that appears to run…