BGC Partners, Inc. v. Avison Young (Canada), Inc. ( 2023 )

1 Robert S. Larsen, Esq. (NV Bar No. 7785) Wing Yan Wong, Esq. (NV Bar No. 13622) 2 GORDON & REES LLP 300 South Fourth Street, Suite 1550 3 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 Telephone: (702) 577-9301 4 Facsimile: (702) 255-2858 rlarsen@gordonrees.com 5 wwong@gordonrees.com 6 Nathaniel Kritzer (admitted pro hac vice) STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP 7 1440 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 8 United States Telephone: (212) 378-7535 9 Facsimile: (212) 506-3950 nkritzer@steptoe.com 10 Attorneys for Defendants 11 Avison Young (Canada) Inc., Avison Young 12 (USA) Inc., Avison Young-Nevada, LLC, Mark Rose, Joseph Kupiec, 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA 15 NEWMARK GROUP, INC., G&E ACQUISITION ) CASE NO.: 2:15-cv-00531-RFB-GWF COMPANY, LLC, and BGC REAL ESTATE OF ) 16 NEVADA, LLC, ) 17 ) UNOPPOSED MOTION TO FILE ) MOTION FOR SUMMARY 18 ) JUDGMENT IN EXCESS OF THIRTY PAGES ) 19 ) AVISON YOUNG (CANADA) INC.; AVISON YOUNG (USA) INC.; AVISON YOUNG - ) 20 NEVADA, LLC, MARK ROSE, THE NEVADA ) COMMERCIAL GROUP, JOHN PINJUV, and ) 21 JOSEPH KUPIEC; DOES 1 through 5; and ROE ) BUSINESS ENTITIES 6 through 10 ) 22 ) 23 O 24 Pursuant to Local Rules LR 7-1, Defendants Avison Young (Canada) Inc., Avison 25 Young (USA) Inc., Avison Young – Nevada, LLC, Mark Rose, and Joseph Kupiec 26 (“Defendants”), respectfully request permission to file a motion for summary judgment that 27 exceeds the 30-page limit set forth in LR 7-1(a). Defendants submit that there is good cause for 1 DECLARATION OF NATHANIEL KRITZER 2 I, NATHANIEL KRITZER, declare as follows: 3 1. I am an attorney duly licensed and admitted to practice before the courts of the 4 state of New York. I am admitted pro hac vice in this matter. I am a partner at Steptoe & 5 Johnson, LLP and am representing the Defendants in this matter. 6 2. I make this declaration in support of Defendants’ Motion for Leave to File 7 Motion for Summary Judgment in Excess of Thirty Pages. Based on my review of the files and 8 records in this case, I have personal knowledge of the contents of this declaration and could 9 testify thereto. 10 3. Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint contains five different causes of action alleged 11 against the Defendants: a breach of contract claim alleged against Mr. Kupiec; a tortious 12 interference with contract and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty claims alleged 13 against Mr. Rose and the Avison Young entities; and trade secret misappropriation and 14 conspiracy claims alleged against all Defendants. 15 4. Instead of each Defendant filing its own motion, which would total 150 pages of 16 briefing, Defendants request permission to file a 65-page motion for summary judgment to 17 address five defendants and five claims in a single motion. Courts in this district have found 18 good cause to allow excess pages in similar situations. F.T.C. v. Ivy Cap., Inc., No. 2:11-CV- 19 283 JCM GWF, 2012 WL 4482796, at *2 (D. Nev. Sept. 27, 2012) (finding good cause for an 20 oversize brief where a party filed one lengthy summary judgment brief instead of multiple 21 briefs, which the court noted “would lead to inefficiencies and disjointed litigation.”); Trina 22 Solar US, Inc. v. Carson-Selman, No. 220CV1308JCMBNW, 2020 WL 7338552, at *2 (D. 23 Nev. Dec. 14, 2020) (finding good cause to grant motion to exceed page limit where case 24 involved “numerous legal and procedural items” and multiple proceedings spanning multiple 25 jurisdictions). 26 5. Different facts are relevant to each claim, and as a result, briefing this motion requires a 27 significant amount of additional argument. Furthermore, the trade secret misappropriation claim 1 || secrets. This contributes to the need for a brief that exceeds the page limit in LR 7-1. 2 6. As such, Defendants respectfully request that this Court allow them to file a 65-page 3 || summary judgment brief, excluding exhibits, on behalf of five defendants.! Plaintiffs do not 4 || oppose Defendants’ request, and Defendants have agreed not to oppose a motion from Plaintiffs 5 || requesting the same page extension for their response brief. 6 7. Ideclare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America 7 || that the foregoing facts are true and correct. 8 Executed this 23 Day of March, 2023, in New York, New York. 9 /s/ Nathaniel Kritzer 10 Nathaniel Kritzer 12 Based on the foregoing Declaration, Defendants request the Court grant this unopposed 5 2 13 || Motion for excess pages for their forthcoming summary judgment motion. 14 || DATED: March 23, 2023 GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 9 a 15 By: __/s/ Robert S. Larsen = 16 Robert S. Larsen Wing Y. Wong & 17 Gordon & Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP 300 S. 4th St., Suite 1550 18 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 APPROVED: Tel. (702) 577-9301 19 Fax. (702) 255-2858 DATED this 31st day of May, 2023. rlarsen@ grsm.com 20 wwong @ grsm.com 21 Nathaniel J. Kritzer (pro hac vice) Steptoe & Johnson LLP 22 Firm ID No. 43315 RICHA - BOULWARE, II 1114 6th Avenue 23 || United States District Judge New York, NY 10036 nkritzer @ steptoe.com 24 Attorneys for Defendants Avison Young (Canada) 25 Inc., Avison Young (USA) Inc., Avison Young— Nevada LLC, Mark Rose, and Joseph Kupiec 26 27 ' Defendants John Pinjuv and Nevada Commercial Group intend to file a separate motion for summary judgment 28 || that will comply with the thirty-page limit. -3- 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 23rd day of March, 2023, and pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. 3 Pro. 5, I served via CM/ECF, a true and correct copy of the foregoing UNOPPOSED MOTION 4 TO FILE MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN EXCESS OF THIRTY PAGES 5 was served upon those persons designated by the parties in the E-Service Master List upon the 6 following: 7 Todd L. Bice, Esq. 8 Jordan T. Smith, Esq. PISANELLI BICE PLLC 9 400 South Seventh Street Suite 300 10 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 11 Tina B. Solis, Esq. 12 Seth A. Horvath, Esq. NIXON PEABODY LLP 13 70 W. Madison St., Suite 3500 Chicago, IL 60602 14 15 Scott M. Dinner, Esq. NIXON PEABODY LLP 16 799 9th Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20001 17 18 Attorneys for Plaintiffs BGC Partners, Inc. G&E Acquisition Company, LLC and 19 Newmark Group, Inc. 20 21 22 Gayle Angulo 23 An employee of GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 24 25 26 27