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Electronically FILED by Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles on 07/29/2021 04:43 PM Sherri R. Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court, by C. Coleman,Deputy Clerk 1 Neville L. Johnson (SBN 66329) Aleeza L. Marashlian (SBN 332751) 2 JOHNSON & JOHNSON LLP 3 439 North Canon Drive, Suite 200 Beverly Hills, California 90210 4 Telephone: (310) 975-1080 Facsimile: (310) 975-1095 5 Email: [email protected] 6 [email protected] 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff 8 Christopher Avellone 9 SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 10 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 11 Case No. 21STCV22573 12 CHRISTOPHER AVELLONE, an individual, Assigned to the Hon. Theresa M. Traber 13 Plaintiff, PLAINTIFF CHRISTOPHER AVELLONE’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS KARISSA 14 vs. BARROWS AND KELLY BRISTOL’S MOTION TO QUASH, SPECIAL MOTION 15 TO STRIKE, AND MOTION TO DISMISS; KARISSA BARROWS, an individual; DECLARATIONS OF JEFFREY DANIEL 16 KELLY BRISTOL, an individual; and DOES JOHNSON, DAUNA L. BARTLEY, AND 1-100, CHRISTOPHER AVELLONE 17 Defendants. [Requests for Judicial Notice and Notice of 18 Lodging Filed Concurrently] 19 Date: August 11, 2021 Time: 10:00 a.m. 20 Dept.: 47 21 Action filed: June 16, 2021 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO QUASH, SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE, AND MOTION TO DISMISS; DECLARATIONS 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................................................................................... 3 3 APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................................... 6 4 Transcript of cited selections from Koobisimo interview raw audio (Decl. Johnson, Exh. 1.) ..... 10 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES ............................................................... 12 5 I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 12 6 II. ARGUMENT ..................................................................................................................... 15 7 A. This Court Holds Specific Personal Jurisdiction over Defendants .............................. 15 8 1. Defendants waived a challenge to this Court’s jurisdiction over them .................... 15 9 2. Application of the Calder “effects” test shows Defendants’ purposeful availment . 16 3. Relatedness ............................................................................................................... 20 10 4. Fair Play and Substantial Justice (Reasonableness) ................................................. 20 11 B. Defendants’ Anti-SLAPP Motion Is Baseless ............................................................. 22 12 1. Defendants improperly assert that a question of personal jurisdiction is properly before this Court when ruling on their anti-SLAPP motion .................................... 22 13 2. A plain English reading of Defendants’ libels shows they were statements of fact 23 14 3. Plaintiff Has Pleaded and Plausibly Demonstrated Defendants’ Actual Malice ..... 23 15 C. Defendants Have Utterly Failed to Show That This Forum Is Sufficiently 16 Inconvenient to Support Dismissal of the Action ........................................................ 25 III. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................... 26 17 DECLARATION OF JEFFREY DANIEL JOHNSON ................................................................. 28 18 DECLARATION OF DAUNA L. BARTLEY .............................................................................. 29 19 DECLARATION OF CHRISTOPHER AVELLONE .................................................................. 31 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO QUASH, SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE, AND MOTION TO DISMISS; DECLARATIONS 1 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES 2 Cases 3 American Drug Stores, Inc. v. Stroh, 4 (1992) 10 Cal.App.4th 1446 ...................................................................................................... 15 5 Animal Film, LLC v. D.E.J. Productions, Inc., (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th 466 ...................................................................................................... 24 6 Barry v. State Bar of California, 7 (2017) 2 Cal.5th 318 .................................................................................................................. 21 8 Bechtel Corp. v. Industrial Indem. Co., 9 (1978) 86 Cal.App.3d 45 ............................................................................................................ 25 10 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, (2017) 137 S.Ct. 1773 ................................................................................................................ 19 11 Burdick v. Superior Court, 12 (2015) 233 Cal.App.4th 8 .................................................................................................... 18, 19 13 Calder v. Jones, 14 (1984) 465 U.S. 783 ............................................................................................................ passim 15 City of Montebello v. Vasquez, (2016) 1 Cal.5th 409 .................................................................................................................. 23 16 Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang, 17 (2021) 62 Cal.App.5th 539 ............................................................................................ 15, 19, 20 18 Garrison v. State of La., 19 (1964) 379 U.S. 64 ..................................................................................................................... 23 20 Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, (1947) 330 U.S. 501 ................................................................................................................... 24 21 Integral Development Corp. v. Weissenbach, 22 (2002) 99 Cal.App.4th 576 .................................................................................................. 19, 20 23 Jay v. Mahaffey, (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th 1522 .................................................................................................... 25 24 25 Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc., (1984) 465 U.S. 770 ................................................................................................................... 20 26 Kelly v. New West Federal Savings, 27 (1996) 49 Cal.App.4th 659 ........................................................................................................ 14 28 3 PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO QUASH, SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE, AND MOTION TO DISMISS; DECLARATIONS 1 Live Oak Publishing Co. v. Cohagan, (1991) 234 Cal.App.3d 1277 ...................................................................................................... 23 2 3 Mihlon v. Superior Court, (1985) 169 Cal.App.3d 703 ........................................................................................................ 16 4 Morris v. AGFA Corp., 5 (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th 1452 .................................................................................................... 25 6 Murray v. Tran, (2020) 55 Cal.App.5th 10 .......................................................................................................... 23 7 Navellier v. Sletten, 8 (2002) 29 Cal.4th 82 .................................................................................................................. 23 9 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 10 (1964) 376 U.S. 254 ................................................................................................................... 22 11 Oasis West Realty, LLC v. Goldman, (2011) 51 Cal.4th 811 ................................................................................................................ 23 12 Panavision Intern., L.P. v. Toeppen, 13 (9th Cir. 1998) 141 F.3d 1316 .................................................................................................... 20 14 Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 15 (1981) 454 U.S. 235 ................................................................................................................... 24 16 Quantum Cooking Concepts, Inc. v. LV Associates, Inc., (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th 927 ...................................................................................................... 14 17 Reader's Digest Assn. v. Superior Court, 18 (1984) 37 Cal.3d 244 ................................................................................................................. 23 19 Soukup v. Law Offices of Herbert Hafif, 20 (2006) 39 Cal.4th 260 ................................................................................................................ 23 21 Stangvik v. Shiley Inc., (1991) 54 Cal.3d 744 ........................................................................................................... 12, 24 22 Walden v. Fiore, 23 (2014) 571 U.S. 277 ............................................................................................................. 16, 17 24 World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, 25 444 U.S. 286 ............................................................................................................................... 17 26 Zehia v. Superior Court, (2020) 45 Cal.App.5th 543 ........................................................................................................ 18 27 28 4 PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO QUASH, SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE, AND MOTION TO DISMISS; DECLARATIONS 1 Statutes 2 Civil Code section