Dib v. Hamdan CA4/3

Filed 3/23/26 Dib v. Hamdan CA4/3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

JOSEPH DIB et al.,

Plaintiffs and Appellants, G064817

v. (Super. Ct. No. 30-2024-01379003)

SALAM HAMDAN, OPINION

Defendant and Respondent.

Appeal from an order of dismissal by the Superior Court of Orange County, H. Shaina Colover, Judge. Affirmed. Law Office of Monica D. Dib and Monica Dib for Plaintiffs and Appellants. Joseph S. Socher, Esq. and Joseph S. Socher for Defendant and Respondent. * * *

Plaintiffs Joseph Dib and R & R Life is Amazing LLC1 challenge an order granting defendant Salam Hamdan’s motion to quash service for lack of personal jurisdiction and dismissing him from the case. We conclude Dib failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that minimum contacts exist between Hamdan and California to justify exercising personal jurisdiction over him. We therefore affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND K&A Kingdom Holdings, LLC (K&A) is a Wyoming limited liability company that owned residential real property in Buena Park, California (the Buena Park property). In October 2022, K&A sold the Buena Park property to 8217 Poinsettia Drive LLC (Poinsettia LLC). On behalf of K&A, Hamdan signed various documents necessary to effectuate this sale, including a grant deed and reconveyance. Just a couple months later, the property was sold again, this time to a third party, Hien Nguyen. The gravamen of the action underlying this appeal (the present lawsuit) is that both 2022 transfers of the Buena Park property were fraudulent conveyances meant to hide Omar Daher’s assets. Daher is alleged to be the “mastermind of the scheme” which was then carried out by the other defendants, including: K&A, Poinsettia LLC, Khaled Thaher (Daher’s brother), Sad Thaher (Daher’s son), Samuel Abraham, and Hamdan. K&A is alleged to be the alter ego of Daher, who is a “close friend and benefactor” of Hamdan. The exact ownership and corporate structure of K&A is not evident from the record. At the time of the 2022 Buena Park property sales, a lawsuit (the first lawsuit) was pending in which Dib accused Daher, Hamdan, K&A and