Youngevity International, Corp. v. Smith

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Youngevity International, et al., Case No.: 3:16-cv-704-BTM-JLB

Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO v. TRANSFER

Todd Smith, et al., 14 Defendants. [ECF NO. 632] 15 Before the Court is the defendants and counterclaim plaintiffs’ (collectively, the “Wakaya Parties”) motion to transfer this matter to the United States District Court for the District of Utah (the “Utah District Court”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and the “first-to-file” rule. (ECF No. 632.) Youngevity International Corp. (“Youngevity”) and Wakaya Perfection, LLC (“Wakaya”) are multi-level marketing companies that utilize independent distributors to sell their respective products directly to consumers. Several of the Wakaya Parties were formerly employees and/or distributors of Youngevity. In or around November 2015, several of the Wakaya Parties resigned from Youngevity and, together with other Wakaya Parties and others, formed or started working with Wakaya and began…