9 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA

12 ALORICA INC., a Delaware corporation, 13 Plaintiff, TENTATIVE RULING RE: SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE FORTINET, 14 vs. INC.’S FIRST AMENDED CROSS- COMPLAINT IN PART 15 FORTINET INC., a Delaware corporation, and

DOES 1 through 10, inclusive,

21 I. INTRODUCTION

22 According to the allegations of the Complaint, filed on March 21, 2019, plaintiff Alorica, 23 Inc. and defendant Fortinet, Inc. are both Delaware corporations. (Complaint, ¶¶ 1-2.) Alorica is 24 one of the leading providers of outsourced communication solutions, averaging over 600 million 25 customer interactions per year. (Id. at ¶ 4.) Fortinet is a multinational corporation that develops 26 and markets hardware, software, and services for secure computer networking, including 27 firewalls, switches, and routers. (Id. at ¶ 5.)

TENTATIVE RULING RE: SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE

1 Alorica alleges in its Complaint that in 2017 it needed to upgrade the wide area network 2 that connected Alorica’s data cente