Balletto
Balletto v. American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BEVERLY BALLETTO, Case No. 23-cv-01017-JSW
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS, WITH LEAVE TO AMEND,
AND SCHEDULING CASE
AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO., INC., MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE Defendant. Re: Dkt. No. 14
12 Now before the Court for consideration is the motion to dismiss filed by Defendant American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (“Honda”). The Court has considered the parties’ papers, relevant legal authority, and the record in this case. For the reasons that follow, the Court GRANTS Honda’s motion to dismiss, with leave to amend. BACKGROUND In April 2022, Plaintiff Beverly Balletto (“Balletto”) visited Honda’s website and used the website’s “Chat” function, a software service provided by third-party Salesforce, Inc. (Compl. ¶¶ 1, 4, 9.) “Chat is an Application Programming Interface (API) that can be ‘plugged into’ an existing website. The Chat API is run from Salesforce web servers but…