In Re Netflix Antitrust Litigation

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS

WILLIAM ALSUP, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

In this putative antitrust class action, defendant Netflix, Inc., moves to dismiss plaintiffs’ antitrust claims for lack of standing and for failure to state a claim. Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they have standing to bring a Walker Process claim. Defendant has shown, however, that plaintiffs have not pleaded a sufficient level of patent enforcement against Net-flix’s potential competitors, so plaintiffs’ federal antitrust claims fail. Plaintiffs also bring state-law claims. To the extent that they are based on…