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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Del Mar Land Partners, LLC,

 Plaintiff,

vs.

Stanley Consultants, Inc.,

 Defendant.

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No. CV-11-8013-PCT-PGR

 

 ORDER

 

In a complaint filed on January 25, 2011, the plaintiff alleges that the Court

has diversity of citizenship jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1332. Having reviewed the complaint, the Court finds that the jurisdictional

allegations therein are insufficient as a matter of law to establish the existence of

subject matter jurisdiction. The Court will therefore require the plaintiff to file an

amended complaint properly stating a jurisdictional basis for this action. See 28

U.S.C. § 1653; see also, Smith v. McCullough, 270 U.S. 456, 459, 46 S.Ct. 338,

339 (1926) ("The established rule is that a plaintiff, suing in federal court, must

show in his pleading, affirmatively and distinctly, the existence of whatever is

essential to federal jurisdiction, and, if he does not do so, the court, on having the

defect called to its attention or on discovering the same, must dismiss the case,

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 The plaintiff is advised that the complete capitalization of the parties’

names in the caption of any document filed with the Court violates LRCiv

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unless the defect be corrected by amendment.")

The jurisdictional allegation concerning the citizenship of the plaintiff, which

is merely that the plaintiff “is a Nevada Limited Liability Company with its principal

place of business located in Henderson, Nevada[,]” is facially deficient inasmuch

as the citizenship of a limited liability company for purposes of § 1332 is the

citizenship of each of its members. Johnson v. Columbia Properties Anchorage,

LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 (9th Cir. 2006) ("Notwithstanding LLCs' corporate traits, ...

every circuit that has addressed the question treats them like partnerships for the

purposes of diversity jurisdiction. ... We therefore join our sister circuits and hold

that, like a partnership, an LLC is a citizen of every state of which its

owners/members are citizens.") Since the complaint fails to state the citizenship

of the plaintiff’s members, the Court will require the plaintiff to specifically identity

in its amended complaint each of its members by name, specifically allege the

type of business entity that any non-individual member is, and affirmatively allege

the state of citizenship of each member. 

The plaintiff is advised that its failure to timely file an amended complaint

that cures the pleading deficiency noted in this Order shall result in the dismissal

of this action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Therefore, 

IT IS ORDERED that the complaint is dismissed for lack of subject matter

jurisdiction.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the plaintiff shall file an amended

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

February 7, 2011.1

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the plaintiff shall immediately serve a

copy of this Order upon the defendant if the defendant has already been served

with process.

DATED this 26th day of January, 2011.

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