Soares

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 PAUL F. SOARES, Case No. 21-cv-04526-VKD

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

v. MOTION TO DISMISS AND

TRANSFERRING THIS ACTION

WILLIAM VARNER, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 10 Defendants.

13 I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Paul F. Soares, proceeding pro se, sues defendants William Varner, an Oklahoma resident, and Arrowhead Energy, Inc. (“Arrowhead”)1, an Oklahoma corporation, for negligent misrepresentation and conversion, as well as for an accounting. The Court’s subject matter jurisdiction is based on diversity, 28 U.S.C. § 1332. According to the complaint, Mr. Soares is a California resident who owned 100 percent of the stock in Funchal Minerals Limited, an Oklahoma corporation, doing business as OK Minerals (“OKM”). Dkt. No. 1 at 1, 5; Dkt. No. 11, Exs. 1, 2. OKM allegedly owned oil wells in Garvin County, Oklahoma, which defendants agreed

23 1 Mr. Soares’s claims against defendant Sunoco…