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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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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DONALD BUCHLA,

Plaintiff,

v.

BUCHLA ELECTRONIC MUSICAL 

INSTRUMENT, LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-00921-HSG 

ORDER RE CITIZENSHIP OF 

PARTIES

Plaintiff Donald Buchla alleges that this Court has diversity jurisdiction over this action 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332. In support of diversity jurisdiction, Mr. Buchla alleges that he is a 

“citizen of the State of California,” that Defendant Buchla Electronic Musical Instrument, LLC “is 

a closely held limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Oregon with its 

principal place of business at 1630 Williams Hwy, Grants Pass, Oregon,” and that Defendant 

Audio Supermarket Pty. Ltd. “is a privately held Australian company with its principal place of 

business at W 25 26-28 Roberna St, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia.” Complaint at 6. Mr. Buchla 

further alleges that various individual defendants, some of whom are citizens of Australia and 

some of whom are citizens of Oregon, “have a direct or indirect ownership interest” in Buchla 

Electronic and/or Audio Supermarket.

Unincorporated associations, including LLCs, are citizens “of every state of which [their] 

owners/members are citizens.” Johnson v. Columbia Props. Anchorage, LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 

(9th Cir. 2006). Because Mr. Buchla does not allege sufficient facts regarding the citizenship of 

all of the owners/members of Buchla Electronic or Audio Supermarket, the Court cannot 

determine whether diversity jurisdiction is proper. To that end, the parties are directed to file, 

within seven days of the date of this Order, a statement of no more than three pages identifying the 

citizenship of each member of Buchla Electronic and Audio Supermarket. 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 24, 2015

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HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

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