Martinez v. ZoomInfo Technologies Inc

Opinion

8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 10 KIM CARTER MARTINEZ, on behalf of Civil Action No. 3:21-cv-05725-MJP 11 herself and all others similarly situated, STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER 12 Plaintiff, TO STAY CASE PENDING ANTI-SLAPP APPEAL 13 vs. NOTING DATE: May 5, 2022 14 ZOOMINFO TECHNOLOGIES INC., a Delaware corporation 15 Defendant. 16

17 18 This stipulated motion is made by and between Defendant ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. 19 and Plaintiff Kim Carter Martinez through their respective counsel of record. 20 1. Whereas, Plaintiff filed this action on September 30, 2021, alleging ZoomInfo 21 violated her statutory and common-law right of publicity under California law. ECF No. 1. 22 2. Whereas, on December 8, 2021, ZoomInfo moved to strike each cause of action in 23 Plaintiff’s complaint pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP statute on the grounds that her suit 24 challenges speech concerning a matter of public concern. ECF No. 19. 25 3. Whereas, on April 11, 2022, the Court denied ZoomInfo’s anti-SLAPP motion. 26 ECF No. 39. 27 4. Whereas, on April 14, 2022, ZoomInfo appealed the Court’s order denying its anti- 28 SLAPP motion. ECF No. 40. 2 Plaintiff that it intended to move for a stay pending appeal on the grounds that (1) the appeal has 3 divested the Court of jurisdiction and (2) California’s automatic stay provision must be applied 4 where, as here, the Court is sitting in diversity. See, e.g., Nat. Res. Def. Council, Inc. v. Sw. Marine 5 Inc., 242 F.3d 1163, 1166 (9th Cir. 2001) (filing notice of appeal “divest[s] [the Court] of 6 jurisdiction over the matters being appealed”); Makaeff v. Trump Univ., LLC, 2011 WL 613571, 7 at *2 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 11, 2011) (“[u]nder California law, an appeal of a denial of an anti-SLAPP 8 motion automatically stays further trial court proceedings on causes of action related to the 9 motion”). 10 6. Whereas, the parties met and conferred regarding ZoomInfo’s anticipated motion 11 to stay and Plaintiff agreed to stipulate to ZoomInfo’s requested stay and to file a joint status report 12 within seven calendar days of the Ninth Circuit’s resolution of that appeal. 13 WHEREFORE, the Parties respectfully request an Order staying this case in its entirety 14 pending resolution of ZoomInfo’s anti-SLAPP appeal within seven calendar days of the Ninth 15 Circuit’s resolution of that appeal. 16 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 TURKE & STRAUSS LLP QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN LLP 3 4 /s/ Samuel J. Strauss /s/ Alicia Cobb 5 Samuel J. Strauss, WSBA #46971 Alicia Cobb, WSBA #48685 6 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 1109 First Avenue, Suite 210 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 Seattle, Washington 98101 7 Phone (608) 237-1775 Phone (206) 905-7000 Fax (608) 509-4423 Fax (206) 905-7100 8 aliciacobb@quinnemanuel.com Raina Borrelli (pro hac vice) 9 613 Williamson St., Suite 201 Shon Morgan (Pro Hac Vice) 10 Madison, Wisconsin 53703 John W. Baumann (Pro Hac Vice) Phone (608) 237-1775 865 South Figueroa Street, 10th Floor 11 raina@turkestrauss.com Los Angeles, California 90017 Phone (213) 443-3000 12 LAW OFFICE OF BENJAMIN R. OSBORN Fax (213) 443-3100 Benjamin Osborn (pro hac vice) shonmorgan@quinnemanuel.com 13 102 Bergen St. jackbaumann@quinnemanuel.com 14 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: (347) 645-0464 Cristina A. Henriquez (Pro Hac Vice) 15 ben@benosbornlaw.com 555 Twin Dolphin Drive, 5th Floor Redwood Shores, California 94065 16 MORGAN & MORGAN COMPLEX Phone (650) 801-5000 LITIGATION GROUP Fax (650) 801-5100 17 Michael F. Ram (pro hac vice) cristinahenriquez@quinnemanuel.com 18 Marie N. Appel (Pro Hac Vice) 711 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 500 Attorneys for Defendant ZoomInfo 19 San Francisco, CA 94102 Technologies Inc. Telephone: (415) 358-6913 20 Telephone: (415) 358-6293 mram@forthepeople.com 21 mappel@forthepeople.com 22 Attorneys for Plaintiff 23

25 26 27 28 2 DATED this 10th day of May, 2022. 3 A 4 5 Marsha J. Pechman United States Senior District Judge 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28