Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit January 17, 2018, 16-55304 (3123 Smb LLC v. Steven Horn)

HUE WITZ, Circuit Judge,

dissenting:

The Court today holds that a corporation’s principal place of business was located in a state in which the company had done absolutely no business at the time this lawsuit was filed. Although identifying the principal place of business of a holding company is not always an easy task, the “nerve center” cannot be in a state where the corporate EEG is flat.