Society for Human Resource Management v. Zrowth LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE Case No. 21-cv-07684-VC

MANAGEMENT,

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND ORDER

v. TO SHOW CAUSE WHY CASE

SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED FOR

ZROWTH LLC, LACK OF PERSONAL

JURISDICTION

Defendant. Re: Dkt. No.

The plaintiff’s motion for default judgment is denied because the plaintiff has not established that this Court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant, Zrowth LLC. See Vachani v. Yakovlev, 2016 WL 1598668, at *3 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 21, 2016) (“The court cannot enter a default judgment unless it has jurisdiction over both the subject matter and the parties.”). “It is the plaintiff’s burden to establish the court’s personal jurisdiction over a defendant.” Id. According to the complaint, Zrowth is a Wyoming LLC with its principal place of business in Wyoming. The plaintiff points to three connections between Zrowth and California to support jurisdiction: that Zrowth “has an office in California; transacts business in and from California; and maintains and operates a website that originates from and/or is…