Judge: Mel Red Recana, Case: 22STCV09690, Date: 2024-04-10 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV09690    Hearing Date: April 10, 2024    Dept: 45

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

 

 

MIRANDA CHEN;

 

                             Plaintiff,

 

                              vs.

 

CHRIS LOOMIS, CHRIS LOOMIS CONSULTATIONS, et al.;

 

                              Defendants.

 

Case No.:  22STCV09690

DEPARTMENT 45

 

 

 

TENTATIVE RULING

 

 

 

Action Filed:  03/21/2022

Trial Date:  None Set

 

 

 

 

Hearing Date:             April 10, 2024

Moving Party:             Specially Appearing Defendants Chris Loomis and Chris Loomis Consultations, LLC

Responding Party:      None

 

Motion to Quash for Defective Service of Process and Lack of Personal Jurisdiction

 

The court has considered the moving papers.

The court DENIES  without prejudice Defendant’s motion to quash for defective service of process and lack of personal jurisdiction, since no proof of service of the moving papers has been filed.

Discussion

Defendants Chris Loomis and Chris Loomis Consultations, LLC move for an order to quash the service of summons for lack of personal jurisdiction. Defendant’s motion is based on the grounds that (1) the Summons and Complaint were not properly served, and (2) the court lacks jurisdiction over the Defendants.

Plaintiff has the initial burden of proving the facts required for an effective service and establishing the existence of jurisdiction. (Summers, supra, 140 Cal.App.4th at 413.) Here, Plaintiff has not filed an opposition. On April 5, 2024, Defendants filed the notice of non-opposition with an attached proof of service showing that the notice of non-opposition was mailed to Plaintiff.  However, Defendants did not file a proof of service showing that Plaintiff was served the moving papers.

The court therefore DENIES  the motion without prejudice.

It is so ordered.

Dated: April 10, 2024

 

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ROLF M. TREU

Judge of the Superior Court