OPINION & ORDER Before me is Defendants’ motion to dismiss this action for lack of personal jurisdiction and venue or, in the alternative, to transfer this action to the Southern District of Texas, as well as Plaintiff’s cross-motion to transfer this action to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania should I find personal jurisdiction to be lacking in this district. Because I find that personal jurisdiction is lacking over Defendants in this district, Defendants’ motion to dismiss is GRANTED. Because I find that this action could have been initiated in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and that the balance of factors weighs in favor of transferring this action to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Plaintiff’s motion to transfer is GRANTED. I. Background1 Plaintiff Aspen Specialty Insurance Company (“Aspen”) is a North Dakota corporation with principal place of business in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. (Compl. 10.)2 Defendant RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (“RCI”) is a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in Houston, Texas. (Id. 11.) Defendant The Endzone, Inc. (“End Zone,” and together with RCI, “Defendants”), a subsidiary of RCI, is a Pennsylvania corporation with its principal place of business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Id. 12.) End Zone operates a strip club in Philadelphia. (Id. 13.) Around October 2013, Aspen issued a commercial general liability policy to RCI that covered a number of RCI subsidiaries, including End Zone and at least two other RCI subsidiaries that operate strip clubs in New York City (the “Policy”). (Id. 14-15.) Aspen issued the Policy using a Madison Avenue address in New York City, (Radar Decl. Ex. A at 2),3 and under the Policy, the insured is to provide notice to Aspen “[a]s soon as [it becomes] aware of an event that will give rise to a claim” against the insured, which the insured may do by, among other ways, mailing notice to the “Claims Department” at that same Madison Avenue address, (id. at 91). The policy names RCI as the insured, (id. at 2), and a rider to the Policy states that End Zone is an “additional named insured,” (id. at 34 (capitalization removed)). On August 10, 2014, End Zone was the site of a bar fight, which led to a lawsuit in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas against RCI and End Zone in 2016 (the “First PA Suit”). (Compl.
