1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CATALYST LIFESTYLE LIMITED, Case No.: 22cv536-LL-MDD 12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR 13 v. COURT DIRECTED ALTERNATIVE SERVICE ON DEFENDANT AND 14 ELAGO CO., LTD; and ELYEL COUNTER CLAIMANT ELAGO CO. CORPORATION, 15 LTD Defendants. 16 [ECF No. 24] 17 ELAGO CO., LTD; and ELYEL 18 CORPORATION, 19 Counter Claimants, 20 v. 21 CATALYST LIFESTYLE LIMITED, 22 Counter Defendant. 23 24 Before the Court is the Plaintiff and Counter Defendant Catalyst Lifestyle Limited’s 25 (“Catalyst”) Motion for Court Directed Alternative Service on Defendant and Counter 26 Claimant Elago Co., Ltd (“Elago”) (the “Motion”). ECF No. 24. The Motion is unopposed. 27 ECF No. 26. Having considered the Motion, the Court finds Catalyst has undertaken 28 diligent efforts to follow the steps identified in the Hague Service Convention and 1 ||personally serve Elago and that Catalyst’s proposed method of alternative service is 2 ||reasonably calculated to provide Elago with actual notice of this lawsuit. See Fed. R. Civ. 3 ||P. 43); Rio Properties, Inc. v. Rio Int'l Interlink, 284 F.3d 1007, 1016-17 (9th Cir. 2002) 4 ||(the method of service “must be ‘reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to 5 || apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to 6 || present their objections.’”). Thus, for good cause shown, the Court GRANTS Catalyst’s 7 || Motion as follows: 8 1. Plaintiff and Counter Defendant Catalyst shall serve copies of the summons 9 complaint on Defendant and Counter Claimant Elago by alternative service via 10 ||electronic mail to Elago’s United States based counsel, Ms. Sheila Mojtehedi at 11 || sheila@ mojtehedi.com; and 12 2. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m), the Court extends Plaintiff 13 Counter Defendant Catalyst’s time to complete service of process on Defendant and 14 || Counter Claimant Elago to December 29, 2022. 15 IT IS SO ORDERED. 16 || Dated: November 29, 2022 NO 17 DE 18 Honorable Linda Lopez 19 United States District Judge 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28