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Nature of Suit Code: 220
Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
Cause of Action: 28:1444 Petition for Removal- Foreclosure

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN BATIESTE GREENE, JR.,

Plaintiff,

v.

FAY SERVICING, LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No.19-cv-01073-JSC 

THIRD ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: 

CITIZENSHIP OF DEFENDANT FAY 

SERVICING, LLC

The Court issued two previous orders to show cause seeking clarification regarding the 

citizenship of Defendant Fay Servicing, LLC (“Fay Servicing”). (Dkt. Nos. 36 & 39.) As the 

Court previously noted, the Ninth Circuit has held that for purposes of determining complete 

diversity, “an LLC is a citizen of every state of which its owners/members are citizens.” See 

Johnson v. Columbia Props. Anchorage, LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 (9th Cir. 2006). Fay Servicing’s 

responses to the previous orders to show cause do not clarify its citizenship. Instead, the 

responses indicate that Fay Servicing’s “sole member and owner” is itself an LLC (Fay 

Management, LLC), and that LLC’s “sole member and owner” is another LLC—Fay Financial, 

LLC. (See Dkt. Nos. 37-1 at ¶ 3 & 40-1 at ¶ 3.) Fay Servicing asserts that Fay Financial, LLC

consists of “more than thirty members,” and information pertaining to those members is “nonpublic” and was unavailable to Fay Servicing’s counsel “within the deadline set forth by the 

Court.” (See Dkt. No. 40 at 2-3.) 

Fay Servicing correctly “anticipates that the Court may” require further clarification 

pursuant to Johnson. (See Dkt. No. 40 at 2.) The Byzantine ownership and membership structure 

of Fay Servicing does not alleviate Fay Servicing’s burden, as the removing party, to prove that 

there is diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. Thus, Fay Servicing shall file a declaration 

clarifying its citizenship by April 19, 2019 at 12 p.m. The Court will take Plaintiff’s motion to 

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remand under submission at that time. 

The hearing on the motion to remand scheduled for Thursday, April 18, 2019 is 

VACATED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 15, 2019

JACQUELINE SCOTT CORLEY

United States Magistrate Judge

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