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USCA11 Case: 23-11974    Document: 21-1     Date Filed: 09/05/2023   Page: 1 of 3

                                                  [DO NOT PUBLISH]
                                   In the
                United States Court of Appeals
                        For the Eleventh Circuit

                          ____________________

                                No. 23-11974
                          Non-Argument Calendar
                          ____________________

       NICHOLAS HARDING,
                                                     Plaintiﬀ-Appellant,
       versus
       GOOGLE LLC,

                                                   Defendant-Appellee.

                          ____________________

                 Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Middle District of Florida
                   D.C. Docket No. 3:23-cv-00321-BJD-JBT
                          ____________________
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       2                      Opinion of the Court                  23-11974

       Before WILSON, JORDAN, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.
       PER CURIAM:
              This appeal is DISMISSED, sua sponte, for lack of jurisdic-
       tion. Nicholas Harding appeals from the district court’s order
       granting Google LLC’s motion to compel arbitration and staying
       the case pending the completion of arbitration. The order also di-
       rected the parties to routinely ﬁle reports on the status of the arbi-
       tration proceedings.
               An appeal may not be taken from an interlocutory order
       that compels arbitration and stays, rather than dismisses, the ac-
       tion. 9 U.S.C. § 16(b)(1)-(3); see Am. Express Fin. Advisors, Inc. v.
       Makarewicz, 122 F.3d 936, 939 & n.4 (11th Cir. 1997) (dismissing for
       lack of jurisdiction appeal of an order compelling arbitration, stay-
       ing proceedings, and administratively closing the case); Green Tree
       Fin. Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph, 531 U.S. 79, 87 n.2 (2000) (noting that if
       the district court had entered a stay, rather than a dismissal, the or-
       der would not have been appealable, per 9 U.S.C. § 16(b)(1)). The
       district court’s order here stayed, rather than dismissed, the case
       and expressly contemplated further proceedings. Cf. Martinez v.
       Carnival Corp., 744 F.3d 1240, 1244 (11th Cir. 2014) (noting that ad-
       ministratively closing a case is not the same as dismissing a case and
       ﬁnding that order compelling arbitration was immediately appeal-
       able where it “[n]otably . . . did not stay the proceedings, nor did it
       contemplate any further action on this case”).
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       23-11974              Opinion of the Court                      3

             All pending motions are DENIED as moot. No petition for
       rehearing may be ﬁled unless it complies with the timing and other
       requirements of 11th Cir. R. 40-3 and all other applicable rules.