GS Holistic, LLC v. Xotic Smokes Inc

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 5 GS HOLISTIC, LLC, Case No. 22-cv-07628-NC Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE 6 PERSONAL JURISDICTION 7 v. OVER MULHAM ALHAMDANI XOTIC SMOKES INC, et al., Re: ECF 48 Defendants. 9 10 Plaintiff GS Holistic moves for default judgment against defendants Xotic Smokes, 11 |) Murad, Mulham, and Hashem Alhamdani, and Entesar Dargan. ECF 48. This Court does 12 || not find it has personal jurisdiction over Mulham Alhamdani and orders GS to show cause 13 |} why Mulham should not be dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. 14 GS consistently served Mulham Alhamdani in Ohio. See ECF 19, 37, 49. GS does 15 |} not explain Mulham’s Ohio address in its complaint or motion for default judgment. See 16 || ECF 1,48. This Court finds GS’s contention that Mulham is domiciled in California and 5 17 || thus this Court has general personal jurisdiction over him suspect: Mulham was the only 5 …