Spear Marketing, Incorporated v. BancorpSouth Bank

KING, Circuit Judge:

This case is before us for the second time. Following our first decision, the district court awarded Defendants-Appellees nearly $1 million in attorneys’ fees under state law, or, in the alternative, under the Copyright Act. Now, Plaintiff-Appellant Spear Marketing, Inc. appeals this award, arguing that the district court ■ erred in awarding attorneys’ fees under state law because its state law claim was- preempted and erred in alternatively awarding attorneys’ fees under the Copyright Act because it never pleaded or litigated a copyright claim. We conclude that no court…