Moniyan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ROBERT L. WILLIAMS, Case No. 22-cv-01461-DMR

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY

v. CASE SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED

MONIYAN, et al., Defendants.

Self-represented Plaintiff Robert Williams filed a complaint and an application to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). [Docket Nos. 1-2.] Plaintiff’s complaint is unclear, but he appears to allege that Defendants Moniyan (the CEO of Bank of America), the President of the Arizona Employment Development Department, and the Arizona Governor unlawfully denied him pandemic-related unemployment insurance. Plaintiff lives in Walnut Creek, California. The complaint does not contain information that establishes personal jurisdiction over non- California Defendants. The complaint also does not contain information supporting that the case should be brought (or “venued”) in this judicial district. Personal jurisdiction is proper if it is “consistent with [California’s] long-arm statute…