Burmeister

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JEANNETTE BURMEISTER., Case No. 22-cv-03178-AMO

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

9 v. DISMISS

10 DANIEL PETERSON, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 55 Defendants. 11

12 13 Before the Court is Defendants Dr. Daniel Peterson and Sierra Internal Medicines’ 14 (collectively, the “Peterson Defendants”) motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. 15 Having read the parties’ papers and carefully considered their arguments and the relevant legal 16 authority, the Court hereby GRANTS the motion to dismiss, for the following reasons. 17 I. BACKGROUND 18 A. Factual Background 19 Plaintiff Jeannette Burmeister’s (“Burmeister”) allegations stem from a decade-long 20 doctor-patient relationship with Dr. Daniel Peterson (“Dr. Peterson”), who treated Burmeister for 21 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (“ME”) through an Ampligen study at Sierra Internal Medicine, his 22 Nevada medical office. “Compl.” (ECF 1-1) ¶¶ 38-42, 74-75.1 Burmeister generally alleges that 23 …