Xcentric Ventures LLC v. Borodkin et al

Filing 19

ORDER - IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Xcentric Ventures, LLC, and Asia EconomicInstitute, LLC, each provide the Court with a list detailing the identity of its owners/members and the state of citizenship of each owner/member on or before October 18, 2011. Signed by Judge G Murray Snow on 10/4/11. (LAD)

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1 WO 2 3 4 5 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 7 8 Xcentric Ventures, LLC, 9 10 Plaintiff, vs. 11 Asia Economic Institute, LLC, et. al., 12 Defendants. 13 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. CV-11-1426-PHX-GMS ORDER 14 15 16 On July 18, 2011, Plaintiff Xcentric Ventures, LLC, (“Xcentric”) filed a complaint 17 against Asia Economic Institute, LLC (“AEI”) and numerous individuals. (Doc. 1). The 18 complaint alleges that the Court has subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332 19 because “there is complete diversity among the parties.” (Id). Xcentric has filed a Corporate 20 Disclosure Statement identifying its corporate parent as “Creative Business Investment 21 Concepts, Inc.,” a Nevada Corporation. (Doc. 2). 22 Plaintiff has stated that it is “an Arizona limited liability company,” and that AEI is 23 “a California limited liability [sic] with its principal place of business in Los Angeles, 24 California.” (Doc. 1 ¶¶ 3, 6). For the purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1332, however, “an LLC is a 25 citizen of every state of which its owners/members are citizens.” Johnson v. Columbia Props. 26 Anchorage, LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 (9th Cir. 2006). Without considering the citizenship of 27 every member of the two LLCs, it is not possible for this Court to determine whether the 28 parties are completely diverse, and therefore whether it has subject matter jurisdiction over 1 this suit. 2 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Xcentric Ventures, LLC, and Asia Economic 3 Institute, LLC, each provide the Court with a list detailing the identity of its owners/members 4 and the state of citizenship of each owner/member on or before October 18, 2011. 5 DATED this 4th day of October, 2011. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -2-

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