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119: Wikipedia doesn't give a cite (or a breakdown by circuit) but appears to be correct as relevant here. I'm not going to fire up Westlaw for this, but according to Google and Findlaw the Second Circuit addressed this question in Handelsman v. Bedford Village Assocs. Ltd. P’ship, 213 F.3d 48, 51 (2d Cir. 2000), holding that an LLC is like a partnership. Its "citizenship" for diversity purposes is therefore the residence of each of its members or owners.

That means that Pivar's complaint fails to allege the relevant jurisdictional facts as to Seed Media. He alleges only the state in which it was organized and its primary place of business, which would do for a corporation; but not the domiciles or even the identities of the owners.

Based on Seed Media's website it would appear that the founder and chairman of Seed Media lives in New York. Assuming that he still owns a share of the company (which seems like a reasonable assumption), then Seed Media would count as a New York citizen and complete diversity would indeed be absent (as well as improperly alleged).

Someone should tell PZ's or Seed Media's lawyers that there appears to be a lack of federal subject-matter jurisdiction from the face of the complaint. I don't know whether the Second Circuit treats LLCs as corporations or partnerships, but either way, it doesn't look like there's complete diversity of citizenship.

(Yes, I'm a lawyer; but no, this isn't legal advice to anyone, just a comment in the course of a discussion on a topic of public interest.)

I vote for the old english, in a modern font, with a low number of background design elements to let the text speak for itself.

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