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Gen. Elec. Capital Corp. v. Gen. Inv., LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA FORT WAYNE DIVISION
Sep 16, 2014
Cause No. 1:14-cv-203 (N.D. Ind. Sep. 16, 2014)

Opinion

Cause No. 1:14-cv-203

09-16-2014

GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. GENERAL INVESTMENT, LLC, Defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

Plaintiff filed this breach of contract action in this Court based on diversity jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). (Docket # 1.) In response to the Court's prior Orders (Docket # 4, 6), Plaintiff has filed an amended complaint (Docket # 5) and now a supplement to the complaint (Docket # 10) to attempt to correct deficiencies and properly allege the jurisdiction of the parties. Plaintiff, however, still fails to adequately do so.

Plaintiff's supplement to the amended complaint is deficient because it fails to properly allege the jurisdiction of two members of Defendant General Investment, LLC-Tandem Transport Corporation and Consolidated Transport Systems, Inc. Plaintiff recites that "Tandem is a corporation authorized and doing business in the State of Indiana," and that "Consolidated is a corporation authorized and doing business in the State of Indiana." (Pl.'s Supplement to Its Am. Compl. ¶¶ 6, 7.)

But a corporation's citizenship is determined both by its state of incorporation and where it maintains its principal place of business. N. Trust Co. v. Bunge Corp., 899 F.2d 591, 594 (7th Cir. 1990) (Corporations "are deemed to be citizens of the state in which they are incorporated and the state in which they have their principal place of business."); see 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c)(1). As such, the supplement needs to be amended to allege with respect to each Tandem and Consolidated: (1) its state of incorporation, and (2) where it maintains its principal place of business.

Accordingly, Plaintiff is ORDERED to filed an amended supplement to the amended complaint on or before September 30, 2014, properly setting forth the citizenship of the parties.

SO ORDERED.

Enter for this 16th day of September, 2014.

s/ Roger B. Cosbey

Roger B. Cosbey,

United States Magistrate Judge


Summaries of

Gen. Elec. Capital Corp. v. Gen. Inv., LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA FORT WAYNE DIVISION
Sep 16, 2014
Cause No. 1:14-cv-203 (N.D. Ind. Sep. 16, 2014)
Case details for

Gen. Elec. Capital Corp. v. Gen. Inv., LLC

Case Details

Full title:GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. GENERAL INVESTMENT…

Court:UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA FORT WAYNE DIVISION

Date published: Sep 16, 2014

Citations

Cause No. 1:14-cv-203 (N.D. Ind. Sep. 16, 2014)