Question: Proper Widget Stores, LLC , is a small widget retailer located in El Paso, Texas. All of its members live in the El Paso area.

Proper Widget Stores, LLC, is a small widget retailer located in El Paso, Texas. All of its members live in the El Paso area. On May 1,2022, Proper ordered giant widgets from Derry Giant Widgets, Inc., a corporation incorporated in Delaware but with its headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Derry promised to send them, FOB Propers location, but only if Proper paid an initial deposit of half the price-- $80,000.(The total purchase price was $160,000).
On the same day, first thing in the morning, Propers purchasing manager called Diemer Tiny Widgets, LLC, located in Hobbs, New Mexico. Diemers members mostly live in and around Hobbs, but two live just over the state line in Texas, closer to Seminole. (Seminole, Texas and Hobbs, New Mexico are about 30 miles apart). Propers purchasing manager inquired if Diemer had any blue tiny widgets and learned it did. Proper needed these widgets because it had four customers all asking for them. Because Proper was in a rush to get its hands on those tiny widgets, it sent a driver and a buyer with a company credit card with an empty truck up the highway 250 miles to Hobbs to buy the widgets on the spot and load them up. They returned late the same day with a full truckload of tiny widgets. The total cost of this purchase was $200,000.
On the morning of May 5,2022, the Derry Giant Widgets delivery truck appeared at Propers loading dockand every single one of the widgets on the truck was the wrong size. Proper refused to take them, and immediately contacted Derry. Derry refused to send any more widgets and demanded full payment for the ones already sent; it definitely refused to return the deposit. This fight was not resolved over months of angry calls and emails, so Proper sued Derry in the County of El Paso District Court for breach of contract.
Meanwhile, Proper sold the tiny widgets to its four local customers. The widgets ALL proved defective, and Proper promptly refunded the money to its customers, honoring the implied warranty of merchantability it had given them. Proper then immediately filed suit against Diemer for breach of that same warranty, again in County of El Paso District Court.
In both cases, the defendants (Derry in one, Diemer in the other) sought to remove the case to federal court. Explain whether those efforts to remove the cases will be successful.

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