Diamond Resorts Corporation, a Maryland corporation v. Brown ( 2019 )

1 Abran E. Vigil Nevada Bar No. 7548 2 Joseph Sakai Nevada Bar No. 13578 3 BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 4 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Telephone: (702) 471-7000 5 Facsímile: (702) 471-7070 E-Mail: vigila@ballardspahr.com 6 E-Mail: sakaij@ballardspahr.com 7 Paul J. Safier, Esq. (admitted pro hac vice) 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor 8 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19103 Telephone: (215) 988-9146 9 E-Mail: safierp@ballardspahr.com 10 Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Counter-defendants 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 13 DIAMOND RESORTS CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation; DIAMOND RESORTS Case No.: 2:19-cv-00227-APG-NJK 14 HOLDINGS, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company; and DIAMOND RESORTS 15 INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation, 16 STIPULATION AND ORDER TO Plaintiffs, EXTEND TIME FOR 17 PLAINTIFFS/COUNTER- vs. DEFENDANTS TO RESPOND TO 18 COUNTERCLAIMS OF DEFENDANTS/ KYLE BROWN, an individual; MARTIN COUNTERCLAIMANTS 19 BROWN, an individual; EXCHANGE POINTS CLUB, LLC, a Florida and Missouri limited First Request 20 liability company; PREMIER REWARDS LLC, a Missouri limited liability company; VMG 21 RESORTS LLC, a Missouri limited liability company; VACATION MANAGEMENT 22 GROUP, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company; and OWNER EXTRAS LLC, a 23 Missouri limited liability company, 24 Defendants. _________________________________________ 25 26 27 28 1 EXCHANGE POINTS CLUB, LLC, A Florida And Missouri Limited Liability Company; 2 MEMBER PERKS, LLC, Formerly Known As PREMIER REWARDS, LLC, A Missouri Limited 3 Liability Company; And VACATION MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC, A Missouri 4 Limited Liability Company, 5 Counterclaimants, 6 vs. 7 DIAMOND RESORTS CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation; DIAMOND RESORTS 8 HOLDING, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company; DIAMOND RESORTS 9 INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation; and DIAMOND RESORTS 10 INTERNATIONAL CLUB, LLC, a Delaware corporation; and DIAMOND RESORTS 11 CENTRALIZED SERVICES COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, 12 Counter-defendants. 13 14 Plaintiffs/Counter-Defendants Diamond Resorts Corporation, Diamond Resorts Holdings, 15 LLC, Diamond Resorts International, Inc., Diamond Resorts International Club, LLC, and 16 Diamond Resorts Centralized Services Company (collectively, the “Diamond Entities”), and 17 Defendants/Counterclaimants Kyle Brown, Martin Brown Exchange Points Club, LLC, Premier 18 Rewards LLC, VMG Resorts LLC, Vacation Management Group LLC, and Owner Extras LLC 19 (collectively, “Defendants,” and, together with Diamond, the “Parties”) stipulate and agree to 20 extend the time for the Diamond Entities to respond to the Defendants’ Counterclaims as follows: 21 1. Defendants filed their Answer and Counterclaims on August 16, 2019. 22 2. In their Counterclaims, Defendants named as Counter-Defendants two parties – 23 Diamond Resorts International Club, LLC, and Diamond Resorts Centralized Services Company – 24 that had not previously been named in this action. 25 3. Undersigned counsel for the Diamond Entities agreed to accept service of the 26 Counterclaims on behalf of Diamond Resorts International Club, LLC and Diamond Resorts 27 Centralized Services Company as of August 16, 2019 in exchange for the agreement of 28 1 || Defendants to extend the time for all Diamond Entities to respond to the Counterclaims from 2 || September 6, 2019 to September 27, 2019. 3 4. The Parties stipulate and agree that the Diamond Entities will have up to and until 4 || September 27, 2019 to respond to the Counterclaims. 5 5. The Parties make this request in good faith and not for the purposes of delay. 6 || Dated: August 23, 2019 Dated: August 23, 2019 7 BALLARD SPAHR LLP GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP By: _/s/ Abran Vigil By:_/s/ Michael Kanach 9 Abran E. Vigil Robert S. Larsen Joseph Sakai No. 13578 Nevada Bar No. 7785 10 Nevada Bar No. 7548 Dione C. Wrenn 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 Nevada Bar No. 13285 11 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 300 South 4" Street, Suite 1550 Telephone: (702) 471-7000 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 12 Facsimile: (702) 471-7070 Telephone: (702) 577-9300 5 ae Facsimile: (702) 255-2858 BE 13 Paul J. Safier (admitted pro hac vice) a 1735 Market Street, 51° Floor Michael D. Kanach (admitted pro hac zo B/E 14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 vice) 4 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 3 15 Attorneys for Plaintiffs San Francisco, California 94111 ZE5 5 a 16 Attorneys for Defendants > 17 18 ORDER IT IS SO ORDERED. NANCY J. KOPPE \ 21 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 22 DATED: August 26, 2019 23 24 25 26 27 28