International Film Distribution Establishment v. Paramount Pictures Corp.

Defendant moves for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Since the action is one in tort, such a motion will lie only if the lack of merit in plaintiff’s case is established solely by “ documentary evidence or official record

The complaint alleges that plaintiff was damaged as the result of defendant’s commencement of an action, in Italy, against plaintiff’s assignee, in which defendant alleged that it owned the rights to a certain motion picture, that the film had been unlawfully imported into Italy, and that its distribution and exhibition there was not authorized by defendant and…