NANCY J. KOPPE, Magistrtae Judge.
Pending before the Court is Defendants Ian Christopher O'Connell, Musion Events Ltd. and Musion 3D Ltd.'s ("Defendants") motion to stay discovery pending resolution of their motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and/or improper venue. Docket No. 198. Plaintiffs filed a response and Defendants filed a reply. Docket Nos. 201, 207. The Court finds this motion appropriately resolved without oral argument. See Local Rule 78-2. For the reasons discussed below, the motion to stay discovery is
"The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not provide for automatic or blanket stays of discovery when a potentially dispositive motion is pending." Tradebay, LLC v. eBay, Inc., 278 F.R.D. 597, 601 (D. Nev. 2011). In determining whether a stay is appropriate, the Court considers the goals of Rule 1 to "secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive" determination of all cases. Id., at 602-03.
With that distinction in mind, the Court has taken a "preliminary peek" at the pending motion to dismiss. Plaintiff argues that the exercise of personal jurisdiction is permissible because (1) Defendants claimed credit for the holographic-like projection of Michael Jackson at the — Billboard Music Awards on its website; and (2) James Rock, a director of Musion 3D Ltd. and Musion Events Ltd., personally attended the 2014 Billboard Music Awards and assisted in the rigging of the system used to create the holographic-like projection. See Docket No. 201, at 4-5; Trump v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court of State of Nev. In & For Cnty. of Clark, 109 Nev. 687, 693 (1993).
It appears that Plaintiffs may prevail in opposing the motion to dismiss, but "how the undersigned sees the jurisdictional picture may be very different from how the assigned district judge will see the jurisdictional picture." AMC Fabrication, 2012 WL 4846152, at *4. Because the Court is not convinced that the exercise of personal jurisdiction over Defendants will be found to be proper by the district judge, it is appropriate to stay discovery pending the resolution of the motion to dismiss. See id.
Plaintiffs also argue that a complete stay is not warranted because jurisdictional discovery should be allowed. See Docket No. 201, at 5-6. In opposing the pending motion to dismiss, Plaintiffs have requested that the district judge grant jurisdictional discovery if she finds that the record is not sufficiently developed. See Docket No. 202, at 12-14. Thus, it is more prudent for the undersigned to defer the question of whether jurisdictional discovery is necessary to the assigned district judge in her determination of the merits of the pending motion to dismiss. See AMC Fabrication, 2012 WL 4846152, at *4.
For the reasons discussed above, the motion to stay discovery (Docket No. 198) pending resolution of Defendants' motion to dismiss is hereby
IT IS SO ORDERED.