Kinsale Insurance Company v. SVS Security LLC ( 2024 )

1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 4 KINSALE INSURANCE COMPANY, Case No. 2:24-cv-00997-RFB-NJK 6 Plaintiff(s), Order 7] [Docket No. 2] 8 SVS SECURITY LLC, et al., 9 Defendant(s). 10 Pending before the Court is Defendant SVS Security LLC’s certificate of interested parties. 11! Docket No. 28. 12 To assist federal courts in ensuring that diversity jurisdiction exists, the disclosure 13} statement filed by each party “must name—and identify the citizenship of—every individual or 14] entity whose citizenship is attributed to that party.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 7.1(a)(2). For purposes of 15} diversity jurisdiction, “an LLC is a citizen of every state of which its owners/members are 16] citizens.” Johnson v. Columbia Props. Anchorage, LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 (9th Cir. 2006). Hence, 17} the pertinent inquiry as to LLC citizenship is “not the state in which it was formed or does 18] business.” NewGen, LLC v. Safe Cig, LLC, 840 F.3d 606, 612 (9th Cir. 2016). If an LLC’s 19} owners/members are themselves an LLC (or another unincorporated association), then the Court 20] must know the identity and citizenship of the sub-members, and so on. Lindley Contours, LLC v. 21} AABB Fitness Holdings, Inc., 414 Fed. Appx. 62, 64 (9th Cir. 2011). 22 Defendant SVS Security’s certificate of interested parties does not provide this 23] information. Docket No. 28. Accordingly, Defendant SVS Security must file an amended 24 certificate of interested parties complying with Fed. R. Civ. P. 7.1(a)(2) by October 14, 2024. 25 IT IS SO ORDERED. 26 Dated: October 7, 2024 27 A, x Nancy J. e 28 United States Magistrate Judge