Opinion
21-CV-7113 (JMF)
08-30-2021
IRWAN CHANDRA, Plaintiff, v. LYFT, INC., Defendant.
ORDER
JESSE M. FURMAN, United States District Judge:
On August 24, 2021, the Court directed Plaintiff to file an amended complaint remedying certain pleading deficiencies in the original complaint with respect to diversity jurisdiction. See ECF No. 6. On August 27, 2021, Plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint in which he properly alleges his citizenship. See ECF No. 7, ¶ 5. Plaintiff, however, still fails to allege Defendant's principal place of business; instead, he merely alleges that Defendant is “a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California” and “a citizen of California and Delaware.” See Id. ¶¶ 7-8 (emphasis added). As the Court's prior Order noted, this does not suffice, as a corporation's principal place of business is “not necessarily” the same as its headquarters. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh v. BP Amoco P.L.C., No. 03-CV-200 (GEL), 2003 WL 1618534, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 27, 2003) (Lynch, J.); cf. OneWest Bank, N.A. v. Melina, 827 F.3d 214, 218 (2d Cir. 2016) (“A corporation's principal place of business . . . should normally be the place where the corporation maintains its headquarters - provided that the headquarters is the actual center of direction, control, and coordination, i.e., the ‘nerve center.'” (emphasis added) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Hertz Corp. v. Friend, 559 U.S. 77, 93 (2010))).
Accordingly, no later than September 7, 2021, Plaintiff shall file another amended complaint properly alleging Defendant's citizenship, including its principal place of business.
SO ORDERED.