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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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 The Court also informed the defendant in its December 4th order that the

capitalization of the parties’ names in the caption of a document filed with the

Court violates LRCiv 7.1(a)(3). The defendant made the same error in its

amended notice. The Court trusts that the error will not be repeated.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Kingman Hospital, Inc.,

Plaintiff,

vs.

MPC Computers, LLC, 

Defendant.

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No. CV-07-8160-PCT-PGR

 

 ORDER

In an order (doc. #5) entered on December 4, 2007, the Court required the

defendant to file an amended notice of removal because the original notice failed

to properly allege the existence of diversity of citizenship jurisdiction, the sole

alleged basis for this Court’s jurisdiction over this action. On December 6, 2007,

the defendant filed an Amended Notice of Removal to Federal Court (doc. #6). 

Having reviewed that amended notice, the Court finds that it still fails as a matter

of law to properly allege the citizenship of the defendant.1

The amended notice’s jurisdictional statement concerning the defendant is

facially deficient because it merely states that MPC Corporation, which is alleged

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to be the sole member of the defendant’s sole member, is “a Colorado

corporation[.]” Since a corporate party is a citizen of the state in which it is

incorporated and of the state where it has its principal place of business, 28

U.S.C. § 1332(c)(1), "an allegation that a corporation is a citizen of a certain state

(without more) is not an allegation of fact, but a mere conclusion of law" that is

inadequate to establish diversity jurisdiction. Fifty Associates v. Prudential

Insurance Co. of America, 446 F.2d 1187, 1190 (9th Cir. 1970).

The Court will give the defendant one last chance to cure the pleading

deficiency by filing a second amended notice of removal that properly alleges its

citizenship. The defendant is advised that its failure to timely and properly do so

shall result in the remand of this action without further notice for lack of subject

matter jurisdiction. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that the defendant shall file a second amended notice of

removal properly stating a jurisdictional basis for this action no later than

December 17, 2007.

DATED this 10th day of December, 2007.

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