SAFETY NAILER LLC
v.
THE INDIVIDUALS PARTNERSHIPS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS IDENTIFIED ON SCHEDULE A
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The court granted the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction, enjoining defendants from infringing on the plaintiff's trademarks, copyrights, and patent.
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Each Defendant listed on Schedule A attached hereto, its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, distributors, and all persons in active concert or participation with any defendant having notice of this Order are hereby restrained and enjoined during the pendency of this case: a. From manufacturing, importing, advertising, promoting, offering to sell,
selling, distributing, or transferring any products bearing the SAFETY NAILER Mark, or any confusingly similar trademarks, other than those actually manufactured or distributed by plaintiff; and b. From secreting, concealing, destroying, selling off, transferring, or otherwise disposing of: (i) any products, not manufactured or distributed by plaintiff, bearing and/or using the SAFETY NAILER Mark, or any confusingly similar trademarks; or (ii) any evidence relating to the manufacture, importation, sale, offer for sale, distribution, or transfer of any products bearing and/or using the SAFETY NAILER Mark, or any confusingly similar trademarks; or (iii) any assets or other financial accounts subject to this Order, including inventory assets, in the actual or constructive possession of, or owned, controlled, or held by, or subject to access by, any Defendant, including, but not limited to, any assets held by or on behalf of any Defendant; c. From copying, displaying, distributing or creating derivative works of Plaintiff’s copyrighted photographs; and
d. From making, using, selling, importing and/or offering to sell products that practice the ‘983 Patent. Each Defendant, its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, distributors, and all persons in active concert or participation with any Defendant having notice of this Preliminary Injunction shall immediately discontinue, until further Order of this Court, the use of the SAFETY NAILER Mark, or any confusingly similar trademarks, or the Plaintiff’s copyrighted photographs, and the ‘983 Patent, on or in connection with all Internet based e- commerce stores owned and operated, or controlled by them, including the Internet based e- commerce stores operating under the Seller IDs. This order is limited to the Defendants’ listings using the SAFETY NAILER Mark, or any confusingly similar trademarks, or the Plaintiff’s copyrighted photographs, and the ‘983 Patent, on or in connection with all Internet based e- commerce stores owned and operated, or controlled by them, including the Internet based e- commerce stores operating under the Seller IDs, and does not apply to the Defendants’ entire e- commerce stores. Each Defendant, its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, distributors, and all persons in active concert or participation with any Defendant having notice of this Preliminary Injunction shall immediately discontinue, until further Order of this Court, the use of the SAFETY NAILER Mark, or any confusingly similar trademarks, within domain name extensions, metatags or other markers within website source code, from use on any webpage (including as the title of any web page), from any advertising links to other websites, from search engines’ databases or cache memory, and any other form of use of such terms that are visible to a computer user or serves to direct computer searches to Internet based e-commerce stores registered, owned, or operated by any Defendant, including the Internet based e-commerce stores operating under the Seller IDs. Each Defendant shall not transfer ownership of the Seller IDs during the pendency of this action, or until further order of the Court. Each Defendant shall continue to preserve copies of all computer files relating to the use of any of the Seller IDs and shall take all steps necessary to retrieve computer files relating to the use of the Seller IDs that may have been deleted before the entry of this Order. Defendants and all financial institutions, payment processors, banks, escrow services, money transmitters, or marketplace platforms, including but not limited to, Alibaba.com Hong Kong Limited, which operates the AliExpress.com platform (“AliExpress”), Zhejiang Ant
Small and Micro Financial Services Group Co., Ltd. (“Ant Financial Services”), AliPay (China) Internet Technology Co. Ltd., Alipay.com Co., Ltd., and Alipay Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited (collectively, “Alipay”), Amazon Payments, Inc. (“Amazon”), Dunhuang Group which operates the DHgate.com and DHPay.com platforms, Camel FinTech Inc, ContextLogic, Inc., which operates the Wish.com website (“ContextLogic”), PayPal, Inc. (“PayPal”), eBay, Inc. (“eBay”), Payoneer, Inc. (“Payoneer”), NewEgg Commerce, Inc. (“NewEgg”), WorldFirst UK Limited (“WorldFirst”), or PingPong Global Solutions Inc. (“PingPong”), Joom, SIA (Latvia) (“Joom”), Stripe, Inc. and/or Stripe Payments Company (“Stripe”) and their related companies and affiliates shall continue the restraints imposed under the TRO until further Order of this Court and, to the extent not already done, (i) restrain the transfer of all funds, as opposed to ongoing account activity, held or received for their benefit or to be transferred into their respective financial accounts, and any other financial accounts tied thereto; (ii) divert those restrained funds to a holding account for the trust of the Court.; (iii) identify all financial accounts and/or sub-accounts, associated with the Internet based e-commerce stores operating under the Seller IDs, store numbers, infringing product numbers, and/or the e-mail addresses identified on Schedule “A” hereto, as well as any other accounts of the same customer(s); (iv) identify all other accounts which transfer funds into the same financial institution account(s) or any of the other financial accounts subject to this Order; Upon receipt of notice of this Preliminary Injunction, Defendants and all financial institutions, payment processors, banks, escrow services, money transmitters, or marketplace platforms receiving notice of this Order, including but not limited to, AliExpress, Ant Financial Services, Alipay, Amazon, Dunhuang Group which operates the DHgate.com and DHpay.com platforms, Camel FinTech Inc, ContextLogic, PayPal, eBay, Payoneer, NewEgg WorldFirst,
PingPong, Joom, Stripe, and their related companies and affiliates, shall to the extent not already done, provide plaintiff’s counsel with all data that details: (i) an accounting of the total funds restrained and identify the financial account(s) and sub-account(s) which the restrained funds are related to; (ii) the account transactions related to all funds transmitted into the financial account(s) and sub-account(s) which have been restrained; (iii) the historical sales for the defendants’ listings that are alleged to infringe plaintiff’s trademarks, copyrights and patent; and (iv) the true identities along with complete contact information including email addresses of all Defendants. The funds restrained by this Preliminary Injunction shall not be transferred or surrendered by any Defendant, financial institution, payment processor, bank, escrow service, money transmitter, or marketplace website, including but not limited to, AliExpress, Ant Financial Services, Alipay, Amazon, Dunhuang Group which operates the DHgate.com and DHpay.com platforms, Camel FinTech Inc, ContextLogic, PayPal, eBay, Payoneer, NewEgg WorldFirst, PingPong, Joom, Stripe, and their related companies and affiliates for any purpose (other than pursuant to a chargeback made pursuant to their security interest in the funds) without the express authorization of this Court. No Defendant whose funds are restrained by this Preliminary Injunction may transfer said funds in possession of any financial institution, payment processor, bank, escrow service, money transmitter, or marketplace website, including but not limited to, AliExpress, Ant Financial Services, Alipay, Amazon, Dunhuang Group which operates the DHgate.com and DHpay.com platforms, Camel FinTech Inc, ContextLogic, PayPal, eBay, Payoneer, NewEgg WorldFirst, PingPong, Joom, Stripe, and their related companies and affiliates restrained by this Order to any other financial institution, payment processor, bank, escrow service, money transmitter or marketplace website without the express authorization of this Court.
Any Defendant or financial institution account holder subject to this Preliminary Injunction may petition the Court to modify the asset restraint set out in this Order. This Order shall apply only to the Seller IDs listed on Schedule A hereto, associated e-commerce stores and websites, and any other seller identification names, e-commerce stores, websites, or financial accounts which are being used by Defendants for the purpose of counterfeiting the SAFETY NAILER Mark and/or unfairly competing with Plaintiff and/or copying the Plaintiff’s copyrighted photographs and/or infringing the Plaintiff’s ‘983 Patent. This Preliminary Injunction shall remain in effect during the pendency of this case and until further Order of the Court. Any Defendants that are subject to this Order may appear and Case No. 21-cv-22703-BLOOM/Otazo-Reyes move to dissolve or modify the Preliminary Injunction upon notice to Plaintiff pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rules of the Southern District of Florida.
BOND
13. The Court determines that the bond in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($10,000.00) posted by Plaintiff as evidenced by the Notice of Filing Bond, ECF No. [33-], is sufficient and shall remain with the Court until a final disposition or until this Preliminary Injunction is dissolved or terminated. DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Miami, Florida, on September 21, 2021.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Copies to: Counsel of Record
SCHEDULE A TO ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
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