OPINION AND ORDER This action was commenced on June 19, 2018, by the filing of a summons in New York Supreme Court by Plaintiff 47 E. 34th Street (NY), L.P. (“47 E. 34th St.” or “Plaintiff”). It was removed to this Court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1452(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1334 on November 25, 2020 by the only remaining Defendants in the action, Domus BWW Funding, LLC (“Domus Funding”) and Versa Capital management, LLC (“Versa”) (together, “Defendants”). Before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to remand the action to state court. Dkt. No. 18. For the following reasons, the motion is granted. BACKGROUND As discussed herein, the parties dispute precisely whence this action arises and to what it relates. It is undisputed that the parties’ relationship traces back, ultimately, to a 2012 lease (the “Lease”) between Plaintiff and non-party debtor BridgeStreet Corporate Housing, LLC (“BridgeStreet Corporate Housing”). See Dkt. No. 20-1. The Lease was guaranteed by BridgeStreet Corporate Housing’s then parent company, BridgeStreet Worldwide, Inc. (“BWW”). See Dkt. No. 1 (“Notice of Removal”) 7; Dkt. No. 20-7 (“FAC”)
26-34; Dkt. No. 20-4 at 13-18 (“Guaranty”). In particular, BWW “unconditionally and irrevocably…guarantee[d] that all sums stated in the Lease to be payable by [BridgeStreet Corporate Housing]…will be promptly paid in full when due,” including costs “arising out of any failure by [BridgeStreet Corporate Housing] to pay or perform any of its obligations under the Lease.” Guaranty 1. The obligations established by the Guaranty Agreement could not be “waived, released, discharged or impaired” by reason of, among other things, “(i) any failure, omission or delay on the part of 47 [E. 34th St.] in exercising its rights under the Lease or the Guaranty, (ii) the dissolution, sale of all or substantially all of the assets, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, merger, arrangement, winding up or other similar proceeding affecting the Guarantor or any of its assets; and/or (iii) the expiration of the Term of the Lease.” FAC 28; see Guaranty 2. The Guaranty further states that it is “a continuing guaranty of payment of performance, and not of collection,” “[t]he liabilities and obligations of [BWW]…are primary and enforceable either before, simultaneously or after proceeding against [BridgeStreet Corporate Housing],” and that the Guaranty is binding on the successors and assigns of BWW. Guaranty
