ROY B. DALTON, Jr., District Judge.
This cause is before the Court on the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction (Doc. 13), filed on October 1, 2014. Plaintiffs have not responded to the Motion, and the time for doing so has passed. Local Rule 3.01(b). Upon consideration, the Court finds that the Motion is due to be granted.
Plaintiffs Brownstone Associates, P.A. and Robert Sirianni, Jr. initiated this action against the United States Postal Service ("USPS") by filing a document titled Complaint for Pure Bill of Discovery ("Complaint"). (Doc. 1.) Plaintiffs allege that an unknown person sent libelous letters concerning them to "all 50 state bar associations" from locations in Orlando, Florida. (Id. ¶¶ 10-18.) The USPS allegedly has information that would help identify who sent the letters, including payment documentation and a surveillance video tape. (Id. ¶¶ 19-24.) Plaintiffs allege that they need the information in order to pursue libel and slander claims; however, USPS allegedly will not provide the information to Plaintiffs without "a court subpoena or court order." (Id. ¶ 21.) Accordingly, "Plaintiffs seek an award in equity for the discovery of the information . . . ." (Id. ¶ 26.) The USPS moved to dismiss the Complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1). (Doc. 13.) Plaintiff has not opposed the Motion.
A Rule 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction can be based upon either a facial or factual challenge to the complaint. Kivisto v. Kulmala, 497 F. App'x 905, 906 (11th Cir. 2012). If the challenge is facial, the Court may not look beyond the four corners of the complaint, and it must "consider the allegations in the plaintiff's complaint as true." Id.; see also Lawrence v. Dunbar, 919 F.2d 1525, 1529 (11th Cir.1990). If the attack is factual, then the Court may consider matters outside the pleadings. Kivisto, 497 F. App'x at 906. In either case, the Court must presume that it lacks jurisdiction, and plaintiff has the burden of establishing the contrary. Butler v. Morgan, 562 F. App'x 832, 834 (11the Cir. 2014) (citing Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994)). If the Court determines that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction, then it must dismiss the action. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(h)(3).
The USPS's argument that no federal question is apparent from a review of the Complaint is a facial challenge. (Doc. 13, pp. 3-4.) Thus, the Court must determine the sufficiency of Plaintiffs' allegations that federal question jurisdiction exists because "the USPS is an agency of the U.S. Government and the case involves a potential mail fraud violation under 18 U.S.C. 1341."
Accordingly, it is hereby