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SLEP-TONE ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Plaintiff,v.ELWOOD ENTERPRISES, INC., Defendant.
JOAN HUMPHREY LEFKOW, District Judge.
Plaintiff Slep-Tone Entertainment Corporation ("Slep-Tone") filed a two-count complaint (dkt. 1) against defendant Elwood Enterprises, Inc. ("Elwood"), asserting claims for trademark infringement and unfair competition. Elwood has moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim and failure to join an indispensable party under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 12(b)(7). ( See dkt. 16 ("Mot.").) For the following reasons, the motion is denied.[1]
Slep-Tone, a North Carolina corporation, owns two United States Trademarks[3] for the mark "SOUND CHOICE, " along with two trademarks[4] for the display mark (together, the "Sound Choice marks"). Slep-Tone places these marks on the karaoke accompaniment tracks that it creates and then sells or licenses the tracks to professional karaoke operators, venues that operate their own karaoke systems, and home users to sing karaoke.
Elwood operates the Mecca Supper Club ("Mecca") in Chicago. One draw of Mecca is its karaoke entertainment service. Elwood contracts with a third party to provide this service for its clients "as an inducement for their patronage and purchase of food, drink, and other concessions." (Compl. ¶ 10.) The third party "karaoke operators, " or karaoke disc jockeys ("KJs"), with whom Elwood contracts play "karaoke accompaniment tracks" with which Mecca's patrons sing along. ( Id. ¶ 17.) Much of the content played at Elwood was originally created by Slep-Tone and is branded with Slep-Tone's marks. But the actual tracks played are not Slep-Tone's tracks. They are tracks that the KJs duplicated from an original or non-original source, or acquired from another person who did so, without Slep-Tone's authorization. As a result, Slep-Tone does not realize any royalty fees on these "counterfeit karaoke accompaniment tracks." ( Id. ¶ 26.) Elwood, on the other hand, "realized substantial revenues and profits from the sale of concessions to patrons during the performance of karaoke shows at which counterfeit karaoke accompaniment tracks were used and counterfeits of the Sound Choice Marks were displayed." ( Id. ¶ 29.) Moreover, Slep-Tone alleges that this practice has caused confusion among Elwood's customers, who believe that because the Sound Choice marks appear on the karaoke tracks, they were in fact produced by Slep-Tone. By permitting its KJs to play accompaniment tracks pirated from another manufacturer, Elwood "permitted the display of the words, names, and symbols of the other manufacturer in connection with the Defendant's karaoke services." ( Id. ¶ 69.)
Elwood has the right and ability to control whether its contractors use authentic or counterfeit karaoke materials. Slep-Tone and its affiliates have informed Elwood of the infringing and counterfeit character of its contractors' accompaniment tracks and offered Elwood the opportunity to enter into its Verified Compliance Safe Harbor program or other certification programs. But Elwood has refused to participate. As a result of these communications, however, Elwood has actual knowledge of the infringing and counterfeit nature of its contractors' karaoke materials. By contracting with these "pirate karaoke operator(s), " Slep-Tone alleges, Elwood reduces its own costs while depriving Slep-Tone of its royalty payments. ( Id. ¶ 45.) Pirate karaoke operators also have reduced Slep-Tone's sales generally, "as would-be purchasers of the Plaintiff's legal products eschew those products in favor of obtaining counterfeit product at a greatly reduced cost." ( Id. ¶ 49.) Slep-Tone asserts that the counterfeiting has caused it damages in excess of $100, 000.
Slep-Tone asserts two counts in its complaint, trademark infringement and unfair competition in violation of the Trademark Act of 1946 ("the Lanham Act"), 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq. Slep-Tone seeks injunctive and monetary relief.
I. Motion to Dismiss Under Rule 12(b)(6)
A. Legal Standard
In ruling on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, the court accepts as true all well-pleaded facts in the plaintiff's complaint and draws all reasonable inferences from those facts in the plaintiff's favor. Dixon v. Page, 291 F.3d 485, 486 (7th Cir. 2002). To survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, the complaint must not only provide the defendant with fair notice of a claim's basis but must also establish that the requested relief is plausible on its face. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009); Bell Atl. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007). The allegations in the complaint must be "enough to raise a right of relief above the speculative level." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. At the same time, the plaintiff need not plead legal theories. Hatmaker v. Mem'l Med. Ctr., 619 F.3d 741, 743 (7th Cir. 2010). Rather, it is the facts that count.
B. Trademark Infringement
Elwood's first argument is that the complaint fails to allege any claims for direct, contributory, or vicarious trademark infringement.
The Lanham Act provides in relevant part that a plaintiff may bring a civil action against
[a]ny person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin... which... is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activity by another person.
15 U.S.C. § 1125(a). Thus, in order for Slep-Tone to survive a motion to dismiss, it must allege (a) that its marks are protectible, (b) that Elwood used the marks in commerce, and (c) that its use of the marks is likely to cause confusion. See Ty, Inc. v. Jones Grp., Inc., 237 F.3d 891, 897 (7th Cir. 2001).
1. Use in Commerce & Confusion
Elwood asserts that Slep-Tone's complaint fails to allege that Elwood used the Sound Choice mark in commerce, pointing to the paragraph alleging that the acts attributable to Elwood "are of a commercial nature, in that the acts were principally motivated by the transfer of money by, between, and among the various participants in the karaoke shows in connection with services provided." (Compl. ¶ 31.) This is disingenuous, as Slep-Tone's allegations go beyond those set forth in this single paragraph. It explains that Mecca uses karaoke entertainment services "as an inducement for [its customers'] patronage and purchase of food, drink, and other concessions." ( Id. ¶ 10.) Moreover, it alleges that Elwood "realized substantial revenues and profits from the sale of concessions to patrons during the performance of karaoke shows at which counterfeit karaoke accompaniment tracks were used and counterfeits of the Sound Choice Marks were displayed." ( Id. ¶ 29.) For purposes of surviving a motion to dismiss, Slep-Tone has alleged sufficiently that Elwood uses the offending marks "in commerce." See Slep-Tone Entm't Corp. v. Shenanigans Lounge et al., No. 6:12-cv-1236, 2013 WL 1768444, at *2 (D. Or. Feb. 22, 2013) (statements that "bars and other venues" use karaoke "to entice customers to enter and remain so that they will purchase drinks or other goods and services allowing the bar or venue to profit" sufficiently alleged "that defendant has used the plaintiff's trademarks in commerce in connection with the sale of goods and services") (quotation marks and citation omitted), report and recommendation adopted in whole, 2013 WL 1767727 (D. Or. Apr. 20, 2013); see also Glovaroma, Inc. v. Maljack Prods., Inc., No. 96 C 3985, 1998 WL 102742, at *8 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 26, 1998) ("Generally, courts afford a liberal construction to [the Lanham Act's] commerce requirement.").
Elwood next argues that the complaint fails to adequately allege a likelihood of confusion in the relevant market. Slep-Tone alleges likelihood of confusion among participants in karaoke shows, not among the KJs who represent the market for Slep-Tone's products. Because "relevant confusion is confusion among the trademark owner's customers in the trademark owner's channels of trade, " Elwood contends there can be no confusion here "as a matter of law." (Mot. at 8-9.)
But the cases on which Elwood relies are distinguishable because they involve two different products being sold in two different markets. See Elec. Design & Sales, Inc. v. Elec. Data Sys. Corp., 954 F.2d 713, 719 (Fed. Cir. 1992) (no likelihood of confusion between mark used on computer services and similar mark used on power supplies and battery chargers); In re the W.W. Henry Co., 82 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1213, at *5 (T.T.A.B. 2007) (no likelihood of confusion between one mark for chemical filler marketed and sold to plastic manufacturers and similar mark used for drywall and cement patch compound sold in hardware stores).
Here, the two markets are not for two separate products, but instead the same product being sold in two separate markets. Slep-Tone explains Mecca patrons who engage in karaoke "are also Slep-Tone's potential customers, whose demand Slep-Tone could satisfy through its own sales and licensing activities" (dkt. 21 ("Resp.") at 4), and whose business comprises a portion of Slep-Tone's revenues. (Compl. ¶ 41.) Elwood responds that if the patrons were interesting in purchasing Slep-Tone's products after enjoying a karaoke shows, "they would actually gravitate towards the plaintiff if they were always seeing their trademark and not cause any issue with Plaintiff[']s sales." (Dkt. 22 ("Reply") at 4.) But according to Slep-Tone, the patrons may not do so because "[i]n most if not all cases, the counterfeit karaoke accompaniment tracks are degraded from the original quality, such that the high quality of the Plaintiff's karaoke accompaniment tracks is no longer as evident as it is when original media are used." (Compl. ¶ 28.) Slep-Tone has sufficiently alleged likelihood of confusion among its potential customers due to Elwood's infringing activities.
2. Contributory Infringement
Elwood argues that Slep-Tone cannot succeed under a theory of contributory infringement. To prove contributory trademark infringement, Slep-Tone must demonstrate that Elwood (1) intentionally induced a third party to infringe Slep-Tone's mark; or (2) supplied a product to a third party with actual or constructive knowledge that the product was being used to directly infringe the mark. See Inwood Labs., Inc. v. Ives Labs., Inc., 456 U.S. 844, 854, 102 S.Ct. 2182, 72 L.Ed.2d 606 (1982); Hard Rock Cafe Licensing Corp. v. Concession Servs., Inc., 955 F.2d 1143, 1148 (7th Cir.1992); SB Designs v. Reebok Int'l, Ltd., 338 F.Supp.2d 904, 911-12 (N.D. Ill. 2004). Relying on common law notions of the responsibilities of a licensor or landlord, the Seventh Circuit has ruled that contributory infringement encompasses liability in certain situations for people who knew of the infringement, even if they "do not actually manufacture or distribute the good that is ultimately palmed off as made by someone else." Hard Rock, 955 F.2d at 1148. Contributory infringement requires proof of direct infringement by a third party, as well as the defendant's intent and knowledge of the wrongful activities of its distributors. David Berg & Co. v. Gatto Int'l Trading Co., Inc., 884 F.2d 306, 311 (7th Cir.1989). "While a supplier of goods or services has no affirmative duty to seek out and prevent trademark violations, it has a duty to understand what a reasonably prudent person would understand." Medline Indus., Inc. v. Strategic Commercial Solutions, Inc., 553 F.Supp.2d 979, 991 (N.D. Ill. 2008) (citing Hard Rock, 955 F.2d at 1149).
Elwood argues that this is not the type of case envisioned by the Seventh Circuit in Hard Rock. The court does not agree. The expansion of the Inwood test for contributory liability in Hard Rock "is premised on a defendant's direct control and monitoring of the instrumentality used by a third party to infringe the plaintiff's mark." SB Designs, 338 F.Supp.2d at 913 (citing Hard Rock, 955 F.2d at 1149; Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Network Solutions, Inc., 194 F.3d 980, 984 (9th Cir. 1999)). Slep-Tone has alleged that Elwood hires the KJs and can control whether they use authentic or counterfeit materials. (Compl. ¶¶ 2, 14, 32.) Moreover, Slep-Tone has alleged that Elwood had actual knowledge that KJs operating at Mecca use infringing materials but refused to take appropriate action.[5] ( Id. ¶¶ 33-38.) It has also sufficiently alleged that the KJs themselves are infringing Slep-Tone's marks under the Seventh Circuit's seven-factor test.[6] The court is not the first to find that Slep-Tone's claims against a bar or restaurant that provides karaoke entertainment adequately allege contributory infringement. See, e.g., Slep-Tone Entertainment Corp. v. Snappers Bar & Grill, Inc., No. 8:12-cv-157-T-30, 2012 WL 4174864, at *2 (M.D. Fla. Sept. 19, 2012) ("Slep-Tone alleges that Snappers was aware of the karaoke operators' unlawful activity and continued to utilize their services at its establishment. In other words, a finder of fact could determine that Snappers had the ability to control whether its karaoke providers/operators were performing using lawful, properly licensed accompaniment tracks at its establishment."). The motion is denied on these bases.
3. Fair Use Defense
Elwood also insists that its activities are protected by the nominative fair use defense. "The nominative fair use defense is a non-statutory doctrine that applies when the defendant uses the plaintiff's trademarks to refer to the plaintiff's goods or services in a non-confusing manner." DeVry, Inc. v. Univ. of Med. & Health Sci.-St. Kitts, No. 08 C 3280, 2009 WL 260950, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 3, 2009) (citing New Kids On the Block v. News Am. Publ'g, Inc., 971 F.2d 302, 308 (9th Cir. 1992)). The defense covers situations "where the use of the trademark does not attempt to capitalize on consumer confusion or to appropriate the cachet of one product for a different one." New Kids, 971 F.2d at 308. The Seventh Circuit has not directly addressed the viability of this defense, but courts in this district that have used the Ninth Circuit's test as set forth in New Kids. See, e.g., Devry, 2009 WL 260950, at *5. Under this three-part test, the nominative fair use defense applies if (1) the product or service in question is one not readily identifiable without use of the trademark; (2) only so much of the mark or marks as were reasonably necessary to identify the product or service were used; and (3) the user did not do anything that would, in conjunction with the mark, suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder. Id. (quoting New Kids, 971 F.2d at 308).
Elwood cannot prevail on this defense. First, courts in this district have explained that it is inappropriate for consideration in a Rule 12(b)(6) motion. See, e.g., Americash Loans, LLC v. AO Ventures, LLC, No. 08 C 5147, 2009 WL 743010, at *4 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 19, 2009) (review of facts and evidence involved in ruling on nominative fair use defense "premature" at motion to dismiss stage); DeVry, 2009 WL 260950, at *5 (whether nominative fair use defense applied "is a factual determination that the Court will make after discovery").[7] Second, even if the court were to consider the defense on its merits, it would fail. Slep-Tone alleges that Elwood contributed to trademark infringement by allowing KJs who post Slep-Tone's mark on their bootleg version of Slep-Tone's products to operate at Mecca. This does suggest "affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement." See R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Premium Tobacco Stores, Inc., No. 99 C 1174, 2001 WL 747422, at *6 (N.D. Ill. June 29, 2001). The defense fails.
4. Dastar Defense
Elwood argues that the complaint is barred by Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23, 38, 123 S.Ct. 2041, 156 L.Ed.2d 18 (2003). In Dastar, the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff cannot use trademark law to obtain rights over the content of an artistic work. Id. That, in effect, "would amount to an indefinite extension of a copyright.... Dastar tells us not to use trademark law to achieve what copyright law forbids." Eastland Music Group, LLC, v. Lionsgate Entertainment, Inc., 707 F.3d 869, 872 (7th Cir. 2013), cert. denied, 134 S.Ct. 204 , 187 L.Ed.2d 46 (2013).
Dastar is distinguishable from the case at hand. There, the defendant took the plaintiff's product and, after altering it, put the defendant's own mark on it. Here, Elwood contracted with KJs who pass off inferior versions of Slep-Tone's products by pasting Slep-Tone's own mark on them. Moreover, as explained in another suit involving Slep-Tone, "regardless of the copyright status of these videos, Slep-Tone alleges facts about the misuse of its trademark on products it did not create, namely because Slep-Tone's registered trade dress and trademark appear on [the KJ's tracks]. These are cognizable claims under the Lanham Act." Expressway Music, Inc. v. Slep-Tone Entm't Corp., No. 12 Civ. 834, 2013 WL 5345969, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 23, 2013). The Dastar defense fails.
B. Unfair Competition
Elwood asserts that Slep-Tone's unfair competition claim fails for the same reasons that its Lanham Act claim fails. Instead, it survives for the same reasons the Lanham Act claim survives. "As a general rule... the same facts which would support an action for trademark infringement [under Section 32(1)] would also support an action for unfair competition [under Section 43(a)]" of the Lanham Act. 7-Eleven, Inc. v. Spear, No. 10 C 6697, 2011 WL 830069, at *5 n.3 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 3, 2011) (quoting Boston Prof'l Hockey Ass'n v. Dallas Cap & Emblem Mfg., Inc., 510 F.2d 1004, 1010 (5th Cir. 1975)) (brackets in original); see also James Burrough, Ltd. v. Sign of Beefeater, Inc., 540 F.2d 266, 274 n.16 (7th Cir. 1976) (claims for unfair competition "are absorbed in a finding that trademark infringement... exists").
III. Motion to Dismiss Under Rule 12(b)(7)
Finally, Elwood argues that the complaint must be dismissed pursuant to Rule 12(b)(7) because it fails to join indispensable parties, namely the "Contractor(s)' who Plaintiff believes infringed on the Trademark." (Mot. at 20.) It goes on to assert, "Without joining the Contractor(s)' we cannot have access to the marks that were allegedly used, or determine whether any intent to infringe exists, " which is "most important" because "it appears that the Complaint is based upon either vicarious or contributory liability." ( Id. )
On a Rule 12(b)(7) motion to dismiss for failure to join a required party under Rule 19, the court conducts a two-step analysis. First, the court determines whether the party is "required" under Rule 19(a). Askew v. Sheriff of Cook Cnty., Ill., 568 F.3d 632, 635 (7th Cir. 2009). A party is required if joinder is feasible and (1) the court cannot accord complete relief to existing parties in the party's absence; (2) the absent party's ability to protect an interest relating to the subject of the action will be impaired; or (3) an existing party would be subject to a substantial risk of multiple or inconsistent obligations if the absent party is not joined. Fed.R.Civ.P. 19(a)(1). Second, if the court determines the party is required but joinder is not feasible, it must consider whether, under Rule 19(b), "equity and good conscience" require that the litigation should proceed without the absent party. Davis Cos. v. Emerald Casino, Inc., 268 F.3d 477, 480 (7th Cir. 2001). The court considers the prejudice to the existing parties, the adequacy of a judgment that would be rendered without the absent party, and whether the plaintiff would have an adequate remedy if the action were dismissed. Fed.R.Civ.P. 19(b). "If there is no way to structure a judgment in the absence of the party that will protect both the party's own rights and the rights of the existing litigants, the unavailable party is regarded as indispensable' and the action is subject to dismissal... under [Rule] 12(b)(7)." Davis, 268 F.3d at 481 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). The moving party has the burden of showing a party is required. See Rotec Indus., Inc. v. Aecon Grp., Inc., 436 F.Supp.2d 931, 933 (N.D. Ill. 2006).
Another court treating a different one of Slep-Tone's suits has already explained that it is "immaterial whether the karaoke operators are named in the complaint.... Plaintiff's allegations are sufficient because they include the facts that Defendant was aware of the karaoke operators' unlawful activity and continued to utilize their services at its establishment." Slep-Tone Entm't Corp. v. Il Mio Sogno, LLC, No. 8:12-cv-1187-T-30, 2012 WL 3156582, at *1 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 3, 2012). This court agrees. Having determined that Slep-Tone asserts a claim for contributory infringement, the court finds it is not necessary that the KJs be joined for this action to proceed.[8]
For the reasons explained above, Elwood's motion to dismiss is denied. The parties shall appear for a status conference on May 1, 2014, at 11 a.m. to report on the possibility of settlement.
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TONY M. DYER #09675-040, PLAINTIFF,v.ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL,*FN1 ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
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Tony Maurice Dyer ("Dyer") seeks to take a pro se appeal from this Court's December 8, 2008 dismissal of his Motion for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2241 ("Section 2241"). For that purpose Dyer has just filed a document captioned "Appellant Order of Transcript," by which he seeks to obtain what he describes as "a full transcript of the proceedings from case number 08-cv-6404, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois."
That reference to a "transcript" is in error (no fault is of course to be ascribed to non-lawyer Dyer for his mistake), for all of the proceedings in this action have been reflected in a paper record, as contrasted with any in-court proceedings that would have to be reduced to transcript form. If a transcript were literally involved, this Court would have to reject Dyer's effort because his appeal (like his original action) is frivolous (see 28 U.S.C. §753(f) and such cases applying that statute as Lampley v. McBride, 207 Fed. App'x 649, 2006 WL 3153941 (7th Cir. Nov. 2) and Washington v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., 89 F.3d 839 (7th Cir. 1996)(table citation), 1996 WL 328829 (7th Cir. June 10), each citing to and relying upon United States v. MacCollom, 426 U.S. 317 (1976)).
But Dyer fares no better in what amounts to an informal designation of record for his putative appeal. This Court has already issued a February 20, 2009 memorandum explaining that Dyer's Notice of Appeal is untimely. Moreover, this Court's earlier rulings on the merits had sought to make plain to Dyer that his failure to pursue his administrative remedies, rather than bringing a court action, was effectively depriving him of any opportunity to expand the Bureau of Prisons' already-scheduled six-month halfway house placement for him covering the end of his term of imprisonment (a placement that would operate from mid-June of this year to his projected release date of December 19, 2009.
Dyer's current filing refers to a "Motion to Proceed in Forma Pauperus," which he says he was filing concurrently with the document referred to here. This Court has not seen that filing (it seems likely that if he did file it, he failed to provide the required Judge's Copy for delivery to this Court, as was true of his "Appellant Order of Transcript"). If and when such a motion is brought before this Court, it will be denied because of the frivolous nature of Dyer's appeal.
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RACHEL ROTHSTEIN, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS,v.UBS AG, DEFENDANT.
The sympathy one feels for the plaintiffs in this case cannot disguise the fact that their counsel has attempted to stretch the law beyond all recognizable limits. Accordingly on March 6, 2009, the Court issued a "bottom-line" Order granting defendant's motion to dismiss with prejudice plaintiffs' claims that defendant UBS AG ("UBS") aided and abetted international terrorism (Count One) and aided and abetted violations of customary international law (Count Two).*fn1 This Opinion and Order sets forth the reasons for that ruling and directs the entry of final judgment.
The plaintiffs here are forty-five victims and/or families of victims of violence perpetrated by the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah in the form of a bombing in Jerusalem, Israel on July 30, 1997; a bombing in Jerusalem, Israel on September 4, 1997; a bombing near Neve Yamin, Israel on March 28, 2001; a bombing in Jerusalem, Israel on August 9, 2001; a bombing in Jerusalem, Israel on December 1, 2001; a rocket attack on Safed, Israel on July 13, 2006; and further rocket attacks on Safed, Israel between July 13, 2006 and July 22, 2006. Defendant UBS, a large international bank, concedly had no direct involvement in those attacks. But plaintiffs allege that UBS indirectly assisted the Government of Iran in financially supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and consequently is liable to plaintiffs for compensatory and punitive damages pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2333 of the Antiterrorism Act (Count One) and under customary international law (Count Two).
The plaintiffs premise these assertions on the admissions made by UBS itself when, in June, 2003, it disclosed that it had transferred U.S. currency to Iran and to Iranian "counterparties," in violation of regulations issued by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control ("OFAC"). Am. Compl. ¶¶ 72, 82. In connection with these violations, UBS paid a $100 million civil monetary penalty to the U.S. government in May, 2004. See id. ¶ 82. Building on these admissions, plaintiffs allege that the Iranian government is a recognized sponsor of terrorism and has funded and supported Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Palestinian terrorist organizations; that these terrorist organizations require U.S. cash dollars to carry out their activities; and that UBS's involvement in banknote transactions with Iranian counterparties had the effect of providing U.S. cash dollars to the Iranian government, which, in turn, supplied the aforementioned terrorist organizations with U.S. cash dollars that were used to facilitate terrorist acts. This indirect facilitation, plaintiffs argue, makes UBS liable to plaintiffs for the harms they suffered at the hands of the terrorist groups.
This extended chain of inferences, however, is far too attenuated to provide plaintiffs with sufficient standing to bring this action under federal law. See Allen v. Wright, 468 U.S. 737, 750 (1984) (standing requires that the injury be "fairly traceable" to the alleged actions of the defendant); Simon v. E. Ky. Welfare Rights Org., 426 U.S. 26, 42-43 (1976) (standing is not established where injury results from "the independent action of some third party not before the court"); see also Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 545 (2007) (from a pleading perspective, "[f]actual allegations must be enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative level"); Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 1949-50 (2009) (affirming Twombly).
Specifically, plaintiffs, to establish standing here, must at a minimum allege facts that show a proximate causal relationship between UBS's transfers of funds to Iran and Hamas' and Hezbollah's commission of the terrorist acts that caused plaintiffs' injuries. This they have entirely failed to do.
Among many other deficiencies in the causal chain, the First Amended Complaint ("Am. Compl.") does not allege that UBS is a primary or even relatively significant source of U.S. banknotes for the Iranian government. Moreover, cash dollars have multiple legitimate uses besides funding terrorism, and, as the amended complaint itself states, "[U.S.] cash dollars are a universally accepted currency and means of payment." Am. Compl. ¶ 55. Further still, there are no specific allegations showing that the terrorist groups here in question raise their funds from monies transferred from Iran. Without multiplying examples, the point is that plaintiffs' allegations here are far too speculative to provide the plausible indication of proximate causation necessary to establish plaintiffs' standing in this case.
Plaintiffs point to two cases in the Eastern District of New York that they claim support the adequacy of their inferential pleadings: Strauss, et al. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A., No. 06-CV-0702, 2006 WL 2862704 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 5, 2006) and Linde, et al. v. Arab Bank, PLC, 382 F. Supp. 2d 571 (E.D.N.Y. 2005). But, quite aside from the fact that these cases (and other relied on by plaintiffs) were decided before the more stringent pleading standards of Twombly and Iqbal were promulgated by the Supreme Court, both cases involved direct involvement between the defendant banks and the terrorist organizations or "fronts" those organizations directly controlled. No such direct relationships are alleged here. Plaintiffs' claims must therefore be dismissed for lack of standing.
Plaintiffs' alleged claims must also be dismissed for the independent reason that they fail to state a legal claim. Count One is brought under the private right of action provision of the Antiterrorism Act, which provides in pertinent part that
[a]ny national of the United States injured in his or her person property, or business by reason of an act of international terrorism, or his or her estate, survivors, or heirs, may sue therefor in any appropriate district court of the United States . . . .
18 U.S.C. § 2333(a) (emphasis supplied).
The "by reason of" language, ultimately derived from the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, 15 U.S.C. §§ 12-27, 52-53, has typically been construed to be synonymous with "proximate cause." See, e.g. Holmes v. Sec. Investor Prot. Corp., 503 U.S. 258, 266 (1992) (in the context of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")); id. at 268 ("a plaintiff's right to sue under § 4 [of the Clayton Act] required a showing that the defendant's violation not only was a 'but for' cause of his injury, but was the proximate cause as well") (citing Associated Gen. Contractors of Cal., Inc. v. Carpenters, 459 U.S. 519, 534 (1983)); Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp., 547 U.S. 451, 457 (2006) (citing Holmes in the context of RICO); Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indem. Co., 128 S.Ct. 2131, 2143-44 (2008) (discussing the role of reliance in assessing proximate cause under Holmes in the RICO context). If the allegations here are so speculative and attenuated as to deprive plaintiffs of standing, it follows a fortiori that they fail to adequately plead causation.
Furthermore, assuming arguendo that a defendant in a private action brought under the Antiterrorism Act can be held liable on an aiding and abetting theory,*fn2 such a theory would here require adequate allegations that the defendant not only knew that its funds would be used to sponsor terrorist acts by Hamas and Hezbollah, but also intended to do so. See, e.g., Boim v. Quaranic Literacy Institute and Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, 291 F.3d 1000, 1023 (7th Cir. 2002)(requiring plaintiffs to "prove that the defendants knew of Hamas' illegal activities, that they desired to help those activities succeed, and they engaged in some act of helping the illegal activities"); Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, 511 F.3d 707, 716 (7th Cir. 2007) (reaffirming elements of aiding and abetting as stated in the first Boim case); Stutts, et al. v. De Dietrich Group, et al., No. 03-CV-4058, 2006 WL 1867060 (E.D.N.Y. June 30, 2006).
No such allegations are remotely made here. In fact, the Court cannot discern any substantive allegation in the amended complaint that adequately alleges intent in any form. Courts in 453 F. Supp. 2d 633, 669 (S.D.N.Y. 2006) (requiring scienter to establish a claim of aiding and abetting in vilation of international law).
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November 16, 2009 4:15 pm ET
Charles Zhang - IR Director
Weizhou Lian - CEO
Derek Palaschuk - CFO
Glenn Greene - Oppenheimer & Co.
Jon Miata - Needham & Company
Hello and welcome to today's Longtop Financial Technologies second quarter fiscal year 2010 results announcement. I am pleased to present Mr. Charles Zhang, IR Director. For the first part of this call, all participants will be listen-only mode and afterwards there will be a question-and-answer session.
Mr. Zhang, please go ahead.
Charles Zhang
Hello, everyone. I apologize to keep you guys waiting. It seems that our company system has some problem and now we're at work. Thank you and welcome to our fiscal second quarter 2010 earnings conference call.
Joining me on call today are Weizhou Lian, Chief Executive Officer, and Derek Palaschuk, Chief Financial Officer.
For today's agenda, management will discuss highlights of the quarter. This will be followed by a Q&A session. Before we continue, I refer you to our Safe Harbor statement in our earnings press release which applies to this call as we will make forward-looking statements.
As you are aware, the company has filed with [SEC] a share of registration statement of Form F-3 and a prospectus supplement – for a follow-on underwriting offering. None of our comments today should be considered an offer to sell securities. This announcement is being made pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 134 under the Securities Act. As required by the Rule 134, this announcement is not intended to, and does not constitute any offer for any securities for sale.
Finally, please note that unless otherwise stated all figures mentioned during this conference call are in U.S. dollars.
I would now like to turn the call over to our CEO, Weizhou Lian, and I will translate Mr. Lian's comments.
Weizhou Lian (Translation)
Thank you for joining us for Longtop's fiscal second quarter 2010 earnings conference call. Our strong performance evidenced by 55.6% software development revenue growth in the first half of fiscal 2010 and the scores the demand for Longtop's solution and that will continue to gain market share. We are again increasing our revenue and net income guidance on the back of this success. I am confidence we've achieved our revised the guidance.
I will now give you an update on our quarterly progress as regards customers, products, and acquisitions. With the most the comprehensive banking and the insurance customer base in China, we're even more optimistic they will work at the beginning of the year.
Looking specifically at our customer segments, we now expect the big four banks will grow by approximately 30% year-on-year and be around 40% of our software revenue in fiscal 2010. Our highest growth continues to come from one of the big four banks which selected us as is number one strategic partner for software development in November 2008 and we expect this trend to continue over the next few years as the bank is doing considerable amount of work on it's legacy system.
I'm also pleased that the other two big four bank customers are both growing by double-digit. We are continuing to work hard on the [last] of the big four bank which is not our customer and I hope before the end of our fiscal year, our first contract can be signed, while I do not expect this contract will be meaningful to our fiscal financial results. This will be a important milestone for us.
As for Other Bank our strategy of cross selling has been well executed. We continue to execute our work with S1, one of Thailand's largest banks. And the partnership has brought us a new follow on contract. We now expect other banks to grow by 45% to 50% year-on-year in fiscal 2010 as compared to the 30% guidance we gave at the beginning of the year. We now expect other banks to be 35 to 40% of our software revenue in fiscal 2010.
On the Insurance side, the largest insurance company is now investing heavily on their IT infrastructure; such as data centers, disaster recovery centers, technical support centers as well as back office processing centers. Based on what we witness in the banking industry, this IT infrastructure spending will be followed by an acceleration in software and services spending where the successful acquisition and integration of Sysnet we are well positioned. We now expect insurance to grow at around 100% year-on-year in fiscal 2010, as compared to 70% guidance we gave at the beginning of this year. Insurance will account for around 15% of our software revenue in fiscal 2010.
The Enterprise segment will be our fastest growing area, where we anticipate year-on-year growth of over 115% in fiscal 2010. We are continuing our rollout of treasury management solutions for the tobacco industry and we are now expecting new contracts for our tobacco industry asset monitoring solution. We have also started to implement a finance system for a subsidiary of a large auto group in China.
In the second quarter due to the strength of our BI solutions we made material progress in the security industry and won an important BI contact.
Turning specifically to our product lines, over the past six months we have been strengthening our BI leadership by enhancing our consulting facilities to compete with the global players rather than just focusing only on solutions, delivery and implementations. Our success is evidenced by our recent winning of our important data integration consulting project with the Big Four Bank where we were selected over our global competitors. We are very pleased to be the primary contractor and we have subcontracted some of the work to a global provider.
This demonstrates our customers' recognition of our capabilities in the high-end consulting areas.
We continue to gain momentum for our CRM solutions where the demand is pretty strong. Our comprehensive CRM solutions can be customized for all size of bank and we are also implementing third-party system for enterprise customers where we believe the potential for CRM is tremendous.
We are well, well positioned in the risk management area where more [hand over] companies that over comprehensive risk management solutions in China market.
Let me now update you on our M&A strategy where we have a number of potential companies in the pipeline. Through selective M&A, we now have opportunity to further strengthen and to solidify our position as the leading player in (inaudible) IT solution market. You can expect this acquisition could be larger than acquisitions that we have done in the past. The possible acquisitions are main reason we have decided to conduct a follow-on registered offering of our ADS.
Before I turn the call over to Derek, I would like to finish my comments by telling you another key highlight. For me this quarter, when investors ask me what is my biggest challenge at Longtop? I always reply my challenge is managing a much larger fast growing company from what I started 13 years ago.
Having recently completed our six months operational review, I was really impressed on the progress Longtop and our country-wide presence has made in improving communication, coordination and efficiency, which definitely has long way to go, but I believe we'll have the strongest management team in the industry which is the foundation for our continued progress.
Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Derek, our CFO.
Derek Palaschuk
Good evening, everyone. I apologize for the delay in the call, you can register that that was Longtop software. It would be much, much more reliable than our service provider for this conference call.
We are pleased to report a strong Q2 and once again increase our full year guidance. I will use most of my prepared remarks today to touch on areas that are not detailed in the earnings release.
Our software development business is performing well with year-on-year growth of 55.6% for the first six months. Excluding SYSNET, the growth would be a healthy 50.9% without any meaningful uplift from renminbi appreciation.
With regard to order intake and backlog, excluding Sysnet, order intake was strong in Q2 with new software development contracts of $50.6 million, compared to $38 million in the year ago period. We have a healthy software development backlog excluding Sysnet of $46.5 million compared to $31 million at June 30 '09 and $36 million in the year ago period.
Demand across all customer segments is strong and we see this trend continuing. Our adjusted software...
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...calendar quarter our fourth fiscal quarter. So for the Sysnet at the beginning of the year, the revenue guidance that we gave, the 9 million, we're very confident that we can achieve that.
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I know you're talking about a pretty large acquisition here. I mean without going into any detail there obviously would be we looking for a company that would be similar industry to Longtop at this point or would be looking to expand out the business model from where we are right now. Thank you.
Weizhou Lian
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Derek Palaschuk
This is Derek. So this acquisition is in the finance, in the banking segment and the acquisition is going to basically compliment and is in the area of core banking. This company has its own core banking system as well as a lot of experience in implementing. Some foreign companies, core banking solutions, they have been very successful. We have a strong team and this is one of the holes in our product portfolio, which while this will be very complimentary it will also allow us to provide the services to other big banks. So Lian, said he is very excited about this opportunity.
Our next question is from Glenn Greene with Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.
Glenn Greene - Oppenheimer & Co.
I guess just a couple of questions on just sort of overall the gross margin trends you are seeing, I guess was a little bit surprising and how strong it was in this quarter. May be Derek, you could sort of talk about the [alloc] which you are seeing in the back half and any commentary why their margins were strong?
Derek Palaschuk
Sure Glenn. As we've basically indicated in our guidance for the full year we have added $60 million in revenue and $7.5 million in that income. So basically that shows you, we have a very stable margin structure. Our guidance for the year is for margins of 67%, which is what we said at the beginning of the year. The first quarter, we definitely had some, headwinds with our other services gross margin they were down to 20% and those have rebounded and we think they will be, somewhere for the rest of the year where they are at now.
On our software business is, there is absolutely no pricing pressure from our customers demand is much greater than supply. We also have, we are fully utilized. So, we wouldn't expect to see margin pressures and even with our stable margins we're continuing to invest in our business hiring more presales people are more BI consultants. You can see Weizhou Lian mentioned in the script that, for the first time ever, we basically won a project over a global service provider in the area of consulting.
Glenn Greene - Oppenheimer & Co.
Okay and then in a different direction you announced a win and I guess that's securities industry. I gather this is your first win sort of going into sort of that niche of the financial services. Could you talk a little bit more about the nature of the contract and just sort of one of many to come or how are you sort of thinking about the securities industry as an opportunity?
Derek Palaschuk
Let me check, I will let Lian go first.
Glenn Greene - Oppenheimer & Co.
Weizhou Lian
This contract was a very important milestone for Longtop. It was our first meaningful contract in the securities industry. It's a BI contract; we're helping them with data analysis and some other management applications. This customer is also an important player in this industry.
As you know we're number one in banking, number two in insurance, but in securities we basically have no presence and we just started. There is a lot of strong competitors in this area, but strategically this is a very important area for us to also cover the securities. One of the ways that we will enter the securities industry is through acquisitions and we'll also increase our internal investment in this area.
Glenn Greene - Oppenheimer & Co.
Then just back to, I guess the targeted acquisition, any way to sort of frame how big it is? I mean in terms of revenue or even ultimately what might you paid for the company?
Derek Palaschuk
Let me take that one, Glenn. So the acquisition will definitely be accretive and all the acquisitions we've done in the past have been accretive and that's an important part of our acquisition criteria. So that's the first key thing that we'll have it won't be dilutive to investors.
We just announced a plan follow-on, but in our guidance that we have given of $1.29 for the full year, there is nothing in our revenue or net income for this acquisition because we haven't closed it, we haven't signed agreements. So it will definitely strengthen our position in the core banking industry. It will be accretive and the company is very profitable.
One other thing, Glenn, sorry, it will be the largest acquisition we've done in terms of purchase price and profit contribution.
Our next question is from Jon Miata from Needham & Company. Please go ahead.
Jon Miata - Needham & Company
I think I missed a piece in your prepared remark where you touched on this potential acquisition. Did you happen to say whether it is a local company to China or if it was a global company?
Derek Palaschuk
It's definitely a local company in China.
Jon Miata - Needham & Company
With regard to the securities industry as you build out that vertical and compete in that industry vertical, does that require that Longtop higher developers with the different core competency likewise on the sales and marketing line? Will you have to beef up that effort?
Weizhou Lian
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