Robert J. DeBry & Associates, P.C. v. Qwest Dex, Inc.

WILKINS, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 Defendants Qwest Dex, Inc., and Dex Media West LLC (collectively, “Dex”) permit out-of-area businesses to purchase local phone numbers and to advertise their available goods and services in the Ogden area telephone directory. We have been asked by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to determine whether Defendants violated Utah Code section 13-lla-3(l)(b), (d), or (t) by publishing both a table of numerical prefixes associated with “a local calling area” and advertisements by third parties that include a market expansion line telephone…