Shin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 JENNIFER TULLEY ARCHITECT, INC., Case No. 21-cv-00619-AGT

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

v. AND MOTION TO STRIKE

JEANNIE SHIN, Re: Dkt. No. 20 Defendant.

Jennifer Tulley, through her architectural firm, seeks damages from former client Jeannie Shin based on claims of copyright infringement, fraud, an account stated, and quantum meruit. The Court previously granted Shin’s motion to dismiss Tulley’s complaint after concluding that her copyright claim wasn’t ripe: Tulley had yet to register the architectural plans that she drew for Shin (which form the basis for her copyright claim) with the U.S. Copyright Office. The Court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state-law claims. Tulley then registered her work— ripening her copyright claim—and amended her complaint. Shin has now moved to dismiss in part and to strike in part the amended complaint. Shin seeks to dismiss the state-law claims, but not the …