Bravick

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 DFINITY USA RESEARCH LLC, Case No. 22-cv-3732-NC 11 Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE: LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER v. JURISDICTION 13 ERIC BRAVICK, Re: ECF 1 14 Defendant. 15 16 In removing this case to federal court, Defendant alleges that complete diversity 17 exists among the parties because Plaintiff is a citizen of California and Defendant is a 18 citizen of Michigan. ECF 1 at 3. In assessing Plaintiff’s citizenship, Defendant applies 28 19 U.S.C. § 1332(c)(1), which states that a corporation is a citizen of both its place of 20 incorporation and its principal place of business. 21 But the rules for Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs), like Plaintiff, are different. 22 An LLC “is a citizen of every state of which its owners/members are citizens.” 3123 SMB, 23 LLC v. Horn, 880 F.3d 461, 465 (9th Cir. 2018). The place of incorporation is not relevant 24 to LLC citizenship. Johnson v. Columbia Props. Anchorage, LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 (9th 25 Cir.…