Little

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BRAND LITTLE, Case No. 23-cv-01098-AGT

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION TO TRANSFER

v. VENUE

PACIFIC SEAFOOD PROCUREMENT, Re: Dkt. No. 23 LLC, et al., Defendants.

Defendants do not dispute that this Court has personal jurisdiction and that venue is proper in the Northern District of California. They have asked the Court, however, to transfer this case to the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, “[f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice.” 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). For the reasons set forth below, the Court declines to do so. * * * First, the named plaintiff, Brand Little, has considerable relevant ties to this District. He docks his fishing vessel in San Francisco, dkt. 31-1, Little Decl. ¶ 2; he fishes for Dungeness crab “exclusively under a California permit,” id. ¶ 5; during the proposed class period, he fished for crab only “in coastal waters between Monterey County and the Oregon [b]order,” id.; and during the proposed class period, all of the Dungeness crab he caught was “landed and sold in San Francisco,” id. ¶ 6.…