Blue Book Services, Inc. v. Amerihua Produce, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION BLUE BOOK SERVICES, INC., ) ) Plaintiff, ) No. 16 C 10495 ) v. ) ) Judge Edmond E. Chang AMERIHUA PRODUCE, INC., ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Blue Book Services gathers information about the produce industry and sells that information to subscribers. In July 2016, Blue Book discovered, much to its surprise, that its entire proprietary database of members-only credit rating information had been downloaded and publicly posted to an unaffiliated website. R. 58, PSOF ¶¶ 1, 5, 52, 21-23.1 After…