NCDR, L.L.C. v. Mauze & Bagby, P.L.L.C., et

EDWARD C. PRADO, Circuit Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant-Appellant M & B 1 , a Texas law firm, engaged in an advertising campaign to solicit former dental patients from Kool Smiles 2 dental clinics as potential clients. M & B appeals the district court’s denial of its Texas “anti-SLAPP” motion to dismiss a claim brought against them by Plaintiff-Appellee Kool Smiles. The district court determined that M & B’s speech fell within a commercial speech exemption to Texas’s anti-SLAPP statute— the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act (“TCPA”). While M & B challenges that determination and asks this…