Song

1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 BLUESTAR GENOMICS, Case No. 21-cv-04507-JST

10 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

CERTIFICATION UNDER 28 U.S.C.

11 v. § 1292(B) AND MOTION TO STAY

12 CHUNXIAO SONG and LUDWIG Re: ECF No. 105

INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH,

13 LTD., Defendants. 14 15 Before the Court is Defendant Dr. Chunxiao Song’s motion for certification of an 16 interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) and an order staying the action until the appeal is 17 resolved. ECF No. 105. Plaintiff Bluestar Genomics (“Bluestar”) opposes the motion. ECF No. 18 115. The Court will deny the motion. 19 I. BACKGROUND 20 As relevant to the present motion, the Court granted on March 25, 2022, Bluestar’s request 21 to conduct limited jurisdictional discovery and stayed its determination as to whether it can 22 exercise personal jurisdiction over Defendant Dr. Song. ECF No. 59. After conducting limited 23 jurisdictional discovery, Bluestar filed the First Amended Complaint…