Minutes of Status Conference (D.E. 190) — OTO Analytics v. Benworth (N.D. Cal. No. 3:24-cv-03975)

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U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico · No. 3:23-cv-01034-GMM · Doc. 190 · 2024-12-16 · Docket on CourtListener

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO 
 
Oto Analytics, LLC 
Plaintiff, 
 
v. 
 
Benworth Capital Partners PR, 
LLC; Benworth Capital Partners, 
LLC; Bernardo Navarro and Claudia 
Navarro, 
Defendants. 
 
Civil No. 23-01034(GMM)cons. 
Civil No. 24-01313 (GMM) 
 
Federal Reserve Bank of San 
Francisco, 
Plaintiff-Intervenor, 
 
v. 
 
Oto Analytics, LLC; Benworth 
Capital Partners PR, LLC; 
Benworth Capital Partners, LLC; 
Bernardo Navarro and Claudia 
Navarro, 
Defendants in Intervention. 
 
Federal Reserve Bank of San 
Francisco, 
Consolidated Plaintiff, 
 
v. 
 
Benworth Capital Partners PR, 
LLC; Benworth Capital Partners, 
LLC; Bernardo Navarro and Claudia 
Navarro, 
Consolidated Defendants. 
 
 
 
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS 
A Status Conference was held on December 16, 2024, before 
Judge Gina R. Méndez-Miró via VTC. The Conference began at 10:50 
a.m. and ended at 11:08 a.m. Court Reporter: Kelly Surina.  
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Plaintiffs Oto Analytics, LLC were represented by Alexander 
Cheney, Alejandro J. Cepeda-Diaz, Joshua Seth Levy, and Stuart 
Roth Lombardi. Defendants Benworth Capital Partners, LCC and 
Bernardo Navarro were represented by Michael Robert Lorigas, Jaime 
A. Torrens-Davila, Jorge L. Piedra, Monica Del Pilar Ramos-
Benitez, and Rasheed K. Nader. Defendants Benworth Capital 
Partners PR, LCC and Claudia Navarro were represented by Carla S. 
Loubriel. Consolidated Plaintiff Federal Reserve Bank of San 
Francisco was represented by Anibal Alejandro Roman-Medina, Thomas 
Kessler, and Ubaldo M. Fernandez-Barrera. 
The 
Court 
summarized 
the 
case’s 
procedural 
history, 
acknowledging that the case is still in early stages of fact 
discovery. The Court indicated that it had examined the Joint 
Status Report filed by the Parties at Docket No. 181 and determined 
that there are a range of discovery-related disputes between the 
parties. The Court requested that both parties report as to the 
status of each noted discovery dispute.  
1. Navarro-Controlled Entities. The Court inquired whether the 
Parties had made any progress on the objections to Plaintiff’s 
interrogatories and requests for production regarding non-
party entities owned and/or controlled by the Navarros, other 
than Benworth FL and Benworth PR. The Parties informed that 
no progress had ben made towards a resolution on this issue 
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and that Defendant’s would file an opposition to Plaintiff’s 
Motion to Compel by this Friday, December 20, 2024. The Court 
will consider the Parties’ filings and issue a decision.  
 
2. QuickBooks Data. The Court inquired as to whether any 
agreement could be made as to the collection of QuickBooks 
data. Defendants did not agree to any of Plaintiff’s 
proposals. Thus, Plaintiff shared that they expect to file a 
motion to compel the production of the relevant data stored 
in QuickBooks sometime this week.  
3. Email Discovery. Parties informed that they had met and 
conferred on December 10, 2024, and discussed search terms 
provided by Plaintiff and the hit report generated by 
Defendant. The Parties agreed that the Defendant would begin 
to review any documents identified by a search term that hit 
on no more than 10,000 hits. For this terms that generated 
hits over 10,000, Plaintiff’s provided modified search terms. 
Although certain terms continue to bring too broad a scope of 
document hits, the parties plan to continue to meet and confer 
until the final search terms list is generated. Parties 
requested to extend the deadline for Substantial Completion 
of Document Discovery by thirty (30) days.  
4. Non-Email Discovery. Defendant reported that aside from the 
bank statements already produced and those being physically 
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copied, the majority of the financial documents are stored in 
QuickBooks. Thus, Defendants intend to respond to the 
production of those documents in due course after Plaintiff 
files a motion to compel. 
The Court granted Parties request to modify the Case 
Management Order and reset the deadline for Substantial Completion 
of Document Discovery for January 31, 2025.  
The Court inquired as to whether the parties have engaged in 
or if there is the prospect to engage in settlement discussions. 
Plaintiff stated that it would discuss the prospect with defendants 
offline and would keep the court abreast of any needs for its 
assistance in settlement negotiations.  
IT IS SO ORDERED.  
 
/S/ Gina R. Méndez-Miró 
Gina R. Méndez-Miró 
U.S. District Judge 
 
 
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