X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd.

1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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10 X CORP., 11 Plaintiff, No. C 23-03698 WHA

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13 BRIGHT DATA LTD., ORDER RE PERSONAL

JURISDICTION

14 Defendant.

15 16 Thanks to all counsel for the supplemental briefing requested at the hearing on the 17 motion to dismiss. A forthcoming order will take up the merits of that motion. This order 18 dispenses with its jurisdictional challenge. For the following reasons, the motion to dismiss 19 plaintiff’s tort claims for lack of personal jurisdiction is DENIED. 20 Plaintiff X Corp. owns and operates the social media platform X, formerly known as 21 Twitter. It is organized under the laws of Nevada with its principal place of business in 22 California, just a few blocks away at 1355 Market Street in San Francisco (FAC ¶ 4). 23 Defendant Bright Data Ltd. sells data it scrapes from websites and social media platforms, as 24 well as tools and services to help its customers scrape that data themselves, i.e., use automated 25 means to collect data from such…