under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(10), is “deemed to be a citizen of the State where it has its principal place of business and the State under whose laws it is organized.” Concluding that Express Check has its principal place of business in South Carolina, the court found that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction over the action. Express Check filed a petition for permission to appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1453(c), and we granted the petition by order dated December 22, 2009. II Express Check contends that, as a limited liability company, its citizenship for purposes of diversity jurisdiction should be determined under traditional rules by looking to the citizenship of its sole member, QC Financial Services. See Carden v. Arkoma Assocs., 494 U.S. 185, 110 S.Ct. 1015, 108 L.Ed.2d 157 (1990) (<HOLDING>); Gen. Tech. Applications, Inc. v. Exro Ltda,
holding that although the question of diversity jurisdiction is distinct from that of immunity the analysis of citizenship determinations for eleventh amendment immunity and diversity jurisdiction are the same holding that a limited liability companys citizenship is that of its members holding that defective allegations of citizenship may be amended to establish diversity jurisdiction 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 for diversity purposes the citizenship of a llc is determined by the citizenship of all of its members