Williams v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MICHAEL WILLIAMS, et al., Case No. 3:22-cv-07149-JD

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS

v.

J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Defendant.

12 Plaintiff Michael Williams alleges that his former office manager, Lylee Kazem, capitalized on his vulnerable state during a 2019 hospitalization by persuading him to transfer $154,000 of his funds to what was ostensibly a corporate account for his business, plaintiff Immunogenetics.com, Inc. See Dkt. No. 1 ¶¶ 1, 10-12. Williams says that he placed an order to wire the funds to a Bank of America account that Kazem opened, but the funds ended up being routed to an account that Kazem opened at defendant J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Chase). See id. ¶¶ 12-13. Williams alleges that he contacted Chase to get his money back, he was assured by Chase employees that the funds were “frozen” pending resolution of the dispute, and -- after years of trying to retrieve the money -- he learned from Chase that the account balance had been paid to …