Judge: Laura A. Seigle, Case: 21STCV24675, Date: 2023-03-10 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV24675    Hearing Date: March 10, 2023    Dept: 15

[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE MOTION TO QUASH

            Plaintiff David Rody served Defendant Signify North America Corporation with the complaint and summons on July 14, 2021.  Defendant did not file an answer.  Instead, on December 21, 2022, Defendant filed a motion to quash the service of summons for lack of personal jurisdiction. 

            This motion is defective.  Under Code of Civil Procedure section 418.10, subdivision (a), a defendant may file a motion to quash service of summons for lack of personal jurisdiction “on or before the last day of his or her time to plead or within any further time that the court may for good cause allow.”  Defendant waited seventeen months after being served to file its motion, did not request further time to file the motion, and did not show good cause for waiting so long.

            The motion is denied.

            The moving party is to give notice.