factor controlling), including: current residence, voting registration and voting practices, location of brokerage and bank accounts, location of spouse and family, membership in unions and other organizations, place of employment or business, driver’s license and automobile registration, and payment of taxes”). The Ninth Circuit treats limited liability companies such as CarMax like partnerships for purposes of diversity jurisdiction. See Johnson v. Columbia Props. Anchorage LP, 437 F.3d 894, 899 (9th Cir.2006) (applying the standard used by sister circuits and treating LLCs like partnerships). Thus, "an LLC is a citizen of every state of which its owners/members are citizens.” Id.; see also Handelsman v. Bedford Village Assocs., Ltd. Partnership, 213 F.3d 48, 51-52 (2d Cir.2000) (<HOLDING>). Car-Max alleges that it is a wholly-owned
recognizing that a limited liability company has the citizenship of its membership holding that a limited liability companys citizenship is that of its members holding that a limited partnership is not itself a citizen and that courts must instead look to the citizenship of its members to determine if diversity jurisdiction exists holding that a limited liability company is a citizen of any state of which a member of the company is a citizen holding that for diversity purposes the citizenship of a llc is determined by the citizenship of all of its members