Rokt Corp. and Rokt PTE LTD. v. AdsPostX, Inc., Jon Nolz, and Surojit Niyogi
- Laura Swain
- 1:23-cv-02081
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Rokt Corp. v. AdsPostX, Judge Swain temporarily sealed two opinions while the parties proposed redactions.
The parties and the public’s access to the two opinions were affected. The order also required Rokt to post security and described restrictions imposed by the separately issued preliminary injunction on defendants and notified persons acting with them.
What happened
Rokt Corp. and Rokt PTE LTD. sued AdsPostX, Inc., Jon Nolz, and Surojit Niyogi. The court temporarily sealed two opinions: one granting Rokt’s request for a preliminary injunction and another granting defendants’ request to dismiss Rokt’s complaint in part.
The temporary sealing gave the parties time to identify information they believed required redaction and to provide legal reasons for those requests. The order states that the preliminary injunction restricts defendants and notified persons acting with them from using specified Rokt confidential, proprietary, or trade-secret information and from engaging in related conduct. Rokt was also required to post $10,000 in cash or an insured bond as security.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties to meet and confer and jointly submit any proposed redactions by September 19, 2025. If no objections or proposed redactions were received, the court said it would file both opinions publicly in full.
The detailed version
- Rokt Corp. and Rokt PTE LTD. v. AdsPostX, Inc., Jon Nolz, and Surojit Niyogi · No. 1:23-cv-02081
- Laura Swain
- Sept. 5, 2025
Order
The court filed two opinions under temporary seal, meaning they were available only to the court and the parties. The sealed documents were the opinion granting Rokt’s motion for a preliminary injunction and the opinion granting in part defendants’ motion to dismiss Rokt’s complaint. This sealing order did not itself state the full reasoning or final disposition in either underlying opinion.
Temporary Injunction Provisions Described in the Order
The order states that the preliminary injunction immediately prohibited defendants, and persons acting with them who received notice, from accessing, copying, communicating, disclosing, sharing, or using specified Rokt confidential, proprietary, or trade-secret information. The listed categories concerned: (1) relative value driven by specific advertisers and market categories; (2) relative performance of different user experiences; (3) Rokt’s pricing strategy; and (4) Rokt’s non-public client list.
The injunction also prohibited defendants from advertising, marketing, promoting, offering to sell, selling, or distributing AdsPostX platforms, systems, or services developed using information in those categories. It further prohibited soliciting or attempting to entice away Rokt clients using that information; further breaching, or causing another party to breach, specified agreements involving Rokt; and aiding or abetting the listed conduct.
As security for the injunction, the order required Rokt to post $10,000 in cash or an insured bond with the clerk by 4:00 p.m. on September 12, 2025.
Redaction Process and Disposition
The court ordered the parties to meet and confer by September 19, 2025, and jointly inform the court in writing of any requested redactions and the legal basis for each request. Each proposed redaction had to be highlighted on a copy of the relevant opinion. If the court received no objections or proposed redactions by that date, it stated that it would file the opinions on the public docket in their entirety. Judge Laura Taylor Swain signed the order, which was therefore a temporary-sealing and redaction procedure rather than a final ruling on the underlying claims.
Read the full 3-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.