John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Book Dog Books, LLC

OPINION & ORDER

GABRIEL W. GORENSTEIN, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Cen-gage Learning, Inc., and Pearson Education, Inc. seek an order requiring defendants Book Dog Books, LLC and Philip Smyres to pay the expenses plaintiffs incurred when Smyres’s counsel cancelled the second day of his deposition the night before it was scheduled to occur. We grant plaintiffs’ application in its entirety.

I. BACKGROUND

On February 4, 2013, plaintiffs filed suit against Book Dog Books, LLC and Philip Smyres, its principal owner and operator, asserting copyright and other…