RICHARD W. ROBERTS, District Judge.
Pro se plaintiff James D. Lammers Kurtz filed a complaint naming at least twenty-seven defendants concerning property located in Wisconsin and harms occurring in Wisconsin and in courts in the Seventh Circuit. Most of the defendants have moved to dismiss.
"It is plaintiff's burden to make a prima facie showing that the Court has personal jurisdiction over the defendants." Ballard v. Holinka, 601 F.Supp.2d 110, 117 (D.D.C.2009); see also First Chicago Int'l v. United Exch. Co., Ltd., 836 F.2d 1375, 1378-79 (D.C.Cir.1988). A plaintiff must plead specific facts providing a basis for personal jurisdiction. Moore v. Motz, 437 F.Supp.2d 88, 91 (D.D.C.2006). "Pro se plaintiffs are not freed from the requirement to plead an adequate jurisdictional basis for their claims." Gomez v.
Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 4(k)(1) and 81(d)(2), personal jurisdiction "must be determined by reference to District of Columbia law." United States v. Ferrara, 54 F.3d 825, 828 (D.C.Cir.1995). District of Columbia law provides that "[a] District of Columbia court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person domiciled in, . . . or maintaining his . . . principal place of business in, the District of Columbia as to any claim for relief." D.C.Code § 13-422. If the plaintiff does not plead that a District of Columbia court has personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on his domicile or place of business, a court engages in a two-part inquiry to determine if it has personal jurisdiction over the defendants. First, a court must determine whether there is a basis for personal jurisdiction under the District of Columbia's long-arm statute. See GTE New Media Servs., Inc. v. BellSouth Corp., 199 F.3d 1343, 1347 (D.C.Cir. 2000). The long-arm statute allows a court in the District of Columbia to exercise personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant with regard to a claim arising from the defendant's conduct in:
D.C.Code § 13-423(a).
The plaintiff pleads no facts in his complaint that provide a basis for asserting personal jurisdiction over the moving defendants in the District of Columbia. None of the defendants appears to be domiciled in the District of Columbia, nor does the complaint allege that the District of Columbia is the principal place of business
Likewise, none of the arguments the plaintiff makes in his oppositions to the motions to dismiss provides a basis for asserting personal jurisdiction over the moving defendants. The plaintiff's argument that by filing motions to dismiss, the moving defendants have created sufficient contacts with this district to establish personal jurisdiction (Pl.'s Opp'n to Gust Lammers Mot. to Dismiss the Compl. ¶ 4(C)) is foreclosed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12. See Chase v. Pan-Pac. Broad., Inc., 750 F.2d 131, 133 (D.C.Cir.1984) ("It was a central purpose of Rule 12(b) to do away with the necessity for a `special appearance' by a defendant who sought to present a personal jurisdiction challenge."). Even if the plaintiff's unsubstantiated assertion that the Department of Justice is engaged in a conspiracy in Washington, D.C. to conceal facts about him (Pl.'s Opp'n to Sheboygan & Wisconsin Defs.' Mot. to Dismiss at 2 ¶ 5) could provide a basis for haling the United States into court in this district, it provides no basis for asserting personal jurisdiction over any of the moving defendants. The plaintiff presents no authority that his confusing and unsubstantiated claim that the defendants issued court orders that caused "obstruction of process in the U.S. Supreme Court" (id. at 5 ¶ 6(B); Pl.'s Opp'n to Fed. Judicial Defs.' Mot. to Dismiss ¶ 9) is a sufficient contact with the District of Columbia to provide a basis for asserting personal jurisdiction over any of the moving defendants. Finally, the plaintiff's allegation that the defendants' actions are causing him a financial injury in the District of Columbia by preventing him from selling a toilet he designed (Pl.'s Opp'n to Sheboygan & Wisconsin Defs.' Mot. to Dismiss ¶ 6(C); Pl.'s Opp'n to Fed. Judicial Defs.' Mot. to Dismiss ¶ 10) does not satisfy the long-arm statute because the plaintiff has not alleged that the defendants caused this injury by an act or omission in the District of Columbia or that the defendants regularly do or solicit business, engage in any persistent course of conduct, or derive substantial revenue from the District
Thus, under even a liberal construction of his pro se complaint, see Howerton v. Ogletree, 466 F.Supp.2d 182, 183 (D.D.C. 2006), the plaintiff has not alleged an adequate basis for asserting personal jurisdiction over the moving defendants, and the defendants' motions to dismiss will be granted. Accordingly, it is hereby
ORDERED that the plaintiff's motion [37] for reconsideration be, and hereby is, GRANTED. The order granting the motions to dismiss of Janet C. Lammers, Lammers Little Lambs, LLC, and Arthur R. Lammers is vacated. It is further
ORDERED that the defendants' motions [4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 38] to dismiss be, and hereby are, GRANTED. The complaint is dismissed as to all moving defendants.