HTT Group LLC v. Individuals
HTT Group LLC v. The Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, and Unicorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A to the Complaint
- Lewis Liman
- 1:22-cv-04206
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In HTT Group v. Individuals, Judge Liman granted injunction-related applications but limited relief to listings and sales of counterfeit products.
HTT Group, the defendants identified on Schedule A, and the online storefronts whose services to the defendants are subject to the limited restraint.
What happened
In HTT Group, LLC v. The Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, and Unicorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A to the Complaint, HTT Group asked the court for emergency and preliminary injunctive relief concerning alleged counterfeit products.
The court granted HTT Group’s applications, but modified the requested relief. The online storefronts could be restrained from providing services to the defendants only as related to infringing listings and the offering for sale or sale of counterfeit products. The court said HTT Group could renew its broader request, but the current application did not support that relief.
Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled that an injunction must target specific legal violations and must not unnecessarily burden lawful activity. The court entered the order on June 30, 2022.
The detailed version
- HTT Group LLC v. Individuals · No. 1:22-cv-04206
- Lewis Liman
- June 30, 2022
Background
The court stated that, as described in accompanying orders, it had considered and granted HTT Group’s applications for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. The opinion addresses the scope of the requested relief concerning the defendants’ online storefronts and alleged infringing listings and counterfeit products.
Ruling
The court modified the requested relief. The restraint on the online storefronts providing services to the defendants applies only insofar as those services relate to the defendants’ infringing listings and their offering for sale or sale of counterfeit products.
The court explained that injunctive relief must be narrowly tailored to specific legal violations and must not impose unnecessary burdens on lawful activity. It stated that the current application did not support the broader request to prevent the online storefronts from providing the defendants with all services during the litigation. The modification was without prejudice to HTT Group’s renewing the original request.
Disposition
Judge Lewis J. Liman entered the order granting HTT Group’s applications with the described limitation on the requested relief. The opinion does not provide further details about the underlying alleged infringement or the identities of the defendants listed on Schedule A.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.