TRINIDAD
v.
TRIVAGO GMBH
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The court held that a stay of discovery is not warranted when the defendant seeks dismissal on multiple grounds, absent a showing of good cause and reasonableness.
The defendant moved to stay discovery pending resolution of its motion to dismiss, which raised issues of personal jurisdiction, standing, and failure…
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THIS CAUSE came before the Court upon the Defendant’s Motion to Stay Discovery (D.E. 43), filed on December 11, 2019.
THE COURT has considered the motion, the response in opposition, the reply in support, the pertinent portions of the record, and is otherwise fully advised in the premises.
This Court has in some prior instances stayed discovery pending resolution of a motion to dismiss. But each of these cases raised a discrete, yet sweeping, threshold issue that could have resolved the whole case in one stroke. See, e.g., Padilla v. Porsche Cars N. Am., Inc., No. 18- 24988-CIV, 2019 WL 1281484, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 19, 2019) (motion to dismiss case with prejudice on statute of limitations grounds); Solar Star Sys., LLC v. Bellsouth Telecomm’s., Inc., No. 10-21105-CIV, 2011 WL 1226119, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 30, 2011) (motion to dismiss all claims under the “filed rate doctrine”); Tradex Glob. Master Fund SPC Ltd. v. Palm Beach Capital Memt., LLC, No. 09-21622-CIV, 2009 WL 10664410, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Nov. 24, 2009) (motion to dismiss case on venue grounds); Varga v. Palm Beach Capital Mgmt., LLC, No. 09-82398-CIV, 2010 WL 8510622, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Sept. 3, 2010) (motion to dismiss case based on this Court
granting “nearly identical motions to dismiss based on the forum selection clause in the related case—Tradex’’).
Unlike the discrete issues raised in these cases, the Defendant seeks dismissal on personal jurisdiction and standing grounds, and for failing to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6).! The fact that deciding any one of these issues could potentially resolve the entire case is not by itself enough to trigger a stay of discovery—if it were, discovery would be stayed every time a defendant raised a justiciability or a Rule 12(b)(6) challenge.
The real question is whether the stay of discovery is supported by “good cause and reasonableness.” Varga, 2010 WL 8510622, at *1 (quoting Bocciolone v. Solowsky, Case No. 08- 20200, 2008 WL 2906719, at *2 (S.D. Fla. July 24, 2008)). To determine whether the moving party has met its burden, the Court “must balance the harm produced by a delay in discovery against the possibility that the [dispositive] motion will be granted and entirely eliminate the need
for such discovery.” Bocciolone, 2008 WL 2906719, at *2 (emphasis in original) (quoting McCabe v. Foley, 233 F.R.D. 683, 685 (M.D. Fla. 2006)). After preliminary reviewing the Complaint and the Motion to Dismiss, the Court finds that staying discovery is not warranted
in this case. Thus, it is
ADJUDGED that the motion is DENIED. [...] DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Miami, Florida, this LEG January 2020.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Copies furnished to: Counsel of Record
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Cresthaven-Ashley Master Ass'n, Inc. v. Empire Indem. Ins. Co. (S.D. Fla. 2020)…bears the burden of showing the need for the stay. Jd. at 708. A stay of discovery is warranted “where the movant shows ‘good cause and reasonableness.’” Tradex Glob. Master Fund SPC Ltd. v. Palm Beach Capital Mgmt., LLC, No. 9- 21622, 2009 WL 10664410, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Nov. 24, 2009) (quoting Bocciolone v. Solowsky, No. 8-20200, 2008 WL 2906719, at *2 (S.D. Fla. July 24, 2008); see also Krukever v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., No. 18-21399, 2018 WL 2382008, at *1 (S.D. Fla. May 23, 2018). Overall stays o…
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