Kuo

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JAY KUO, Case No. 22-cv-05282-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE PERSONAL

v. JURISDICTION AND TRANSFER

NAVIENT CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

This is an action brought by plaintiff Lee Jay Kuo against defendants Navient Corporation and Navient Solutions, LLC (together, Navient). Kuo alleges claims for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and violations of California’s Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Unfair Competition Law. Dkt. No. 1 (Compl.) ¶¶ 67-122. In 2009, Kuo co-signed as a guarantor a Bar Study Loan that was taken out by Charles Martin, who, in 2010, lost his job and filed for bankruptcy. Id. ¶ 25. Kuo alleges that (1) the “applicable statutes of limitations on Navient’s claims against the guarantors began to run the moment the bankruptcies were discharged and Navient was no longer legally entitled to collect on the Bar Study Loans from the borrowers at the time of those discharges”; and (2) Navient continues…