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Kurt HUY PHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY, INC.; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 13-15756.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Dec. 9, 2014.
    
    Filed Dec. 18, 2014.
    Kurt Huy Pham, pro se.
    Ethan Douglas Dettmer, Esquire, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Walter J.R. Traver, Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP, San Francisco, CA, Melinda Hardy, Assistant General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before: WALLACE, LEAVY, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Kurt Huy Pham appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his action seeking to vacate an arbitration award against him in a securities action. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s dismissal under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim. Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341 (9th Cir.2010). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Pham’s action because Pham did not timely serve his petition to vacate the arbitration award. See Cal.Civ.Proc.Code § 1288 (“A petition to vacate an award or to correct an award shall be served and filed not later than 100 days after the date of the service of a signed copy of the award on the petitioner.”). Contrary to Pham’s contentions, Pham was not entitled to tolling because he did not voluntarily pursue internal remedies, and did not show that he was sufficiently incapacitated for tolling to apply. See McDonald v. Antelope Valley Cmty. Coll. Dist, 45 Cal.4th 88, 84 Cal. Rptr.3d 734, 194 P.3d 1026, 1032-34 (2008) (concluding that equitable tolling applies to the voluntary pursuit of internal remedies); Tzolov v. Int’l Jet Leasing, Inc., 232 Cal.App.3d 117, 283 Cal.Rptr. 314, 315 (1991) (tolling statute of limitations where an “individual has been injured so severely as to be rendered incapable of caring for [his or her] property or transacting business, or understanding the nature or effects of [his or her] acts” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)).

We reject Pham’s contentions regarding the merits of his motions for reconsideration and for a new trial.

We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n. 2 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.