Legal Opinion
Ticketmaster L.L.C. v. Prestige Entm't W., Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided May 29, 2018No. Case No. 2:17–cv–07232–ODW–JCPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OTIS D. WRIGHT, II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
I. INTRODUCTION
Ticketmaster L.L.C. ("Ticketmaster") brings this suit against Prestige Entertainment West, Inc., Renaissance Ventures LLC, Nicholas Lombardi, and Steven K. Lichtman1 (collectively, "Defendants"), alleging thirteen causes of action based on Defendants' use of automated programs generally known as bots, which navigate Ticketmaster's website and mobile app in order to purchase large quantities of tickets for resale at a profit. (See generally Compl., ECF No. 1.) Defendants moved to dismiss the Complaint, and the Court granted the…
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