UNITED STATES
DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
MIAMI DIVISION
CASE NO. 10-60790-CIV-GRAHAM/TORRES
FINAL DEFAULT
JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
THIS MATTER having come before the Court upon motion by Plaintiffs Chanel,
Inc., Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A., and Tiffany (NJ), LLC (collectively
“Plaintiffs”) for entry of default and final default judgment of
its claims against Defendant Zhang XXX a/k/a Ke XXXX a/k/a Bing XXX (“XXX” or the “Defendant”) pursuant to Rule 55(b)(2) of the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure; and the Court having considered the moving
papers and there being no opposition thereto;
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ Motion for Entry of Default and
Final Default Judgment is GRANTED, and judgment is herby entered in
favor of Plaintiffs, Chanel, Inc., a New York corporation, with its
principal place of business in the United States located at Nine West
57th Street, New York, New York 10019, Louis Vuitton, S.A., a foreign
business entity, with its principal place of business in France located
at 2 rue du Pont-Neuf, Paris, France 75001, and Tiffany (NJ), LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company, with its principal place of business
in the United States located at 15 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, New Jersey
07054, and against, Defendant on all Counts of the Complaint as follows:
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- Permanent Injunctive
Relief:
Defendant and his respective officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys,
and all persons acting in concert and participation with him are hereby
permanently restrained and enjoined from:
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- manufacturing or
causing to be manufactured, importing, advertising, or promoting, distributing,
selling or offering to sell counterfeit and infringing goods using the
Chanel Marks, Louis Vuitton Marks, and/or Tiffany Marks identified in
paragraphs 11, 13, and 15, respectively, of the Complaint;
- using the Chanel
Marks, Louis Vuitton Marks, and/or Tiffany Marks in connection with
the sale of any unauthorized goods;
- using any logo,
and/or layout which may be calculated to falsely advertise the services
or products of Defendant offered for sale or sold domain names identified
on Schedule “A” hereto (the “Subject Domain Names”) and/or any
other website or business, as being sponsored by, authorized by, endorsed
by, or in any way associated with Plaintiffs;
- falsely representing
himself as being connected with Plaintiffs, through sponsorship or association;
- engaging in any
act which is likely to falsely cause members of the trade and/or of
the purchasing public to believe any goods or services of Defendant
offered for sale of sold via the Subject Domain Names and/or any other
website or business are in any way endorsed by, approved by, and/or
associated with Plaintiffs;
- using any reproduction,
counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of the Chanel Marks, Louis
Vuitton Marks, and/or Tiffany Marks in connection with the publicity,
promotion, sale, or advertising of any goods sold by Defendant via the
Subject Domain Names and/or any other website or business, including,
without limitation, handbags, wallets, luggage, briefcases, shoes, belts,
sunglasses, watches, bracelets, necklaces, pendants, earrings, rings,
watches, cufflinks, money clips, and key rings;
- affixing, applying,
annexing or using in connection with the sale of any goods, a false
description or representation, including words or other symbols tending
to falsely describe or represent goods offered for sale or sold by Defendant
via the Subject Domain Names and/or any other website or business, as
being those of Plaintiffs or in any way endorsed by Plaintiffs;
- offering such goods
in commerce;
- otherwise unfairly
competing with Plaintiffs;
- secreting, destroying,
altering, removing, or otherwise dealing with the unauthorized products
or any books or records which contain any information relating to the
importing, manufacturing, producing, distributing, circulating, selling,
marketing, offering for sale, advertising, promoting, renting or displaying
of all unauthorized products which infringe the Chanel Marks, Louis
Vuitton Marks, and/or Tiffany Marks; and
- effecting assignments
or transfers, forming new entities or associations or utilizing any
other device for the purpose of circumventing or otherwise avoiding
the prohibitions set forth above.
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- Additional Equitable
Relief:
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- In order to give
practical effect to the Permanent Injunction, the domain names identified
on Schedule “B” hereto are hereby ordered to be immediately transferred
by Defendant, his assignees and/or successors in interest or title,
and the Registrars to Plaintiffs’ control. To the extent the
current Registrars do not facilitate the transfer of the domain names
to Plaintiffs’ control within ten (10) days of receipt of this judgment,
the United States based Registry shall, within thirty (30) days, transfer
the Subject Domain Names to a United States based Registrar of Plaintiffs’
choosing, and that Registrar shall transfer the Subject Domain Names
to Plaintiffs;
- Upon Plaintiffs’
request, the top level domain (TLD) Registry for each of the Subject
Domain Names, within thirty (30) days of receipt of this Order, shall
place the Subject Domain Names on Registry Hold status for the life
of the current registration, thus removing them from the TLD zone files
maintained by the Registry which link the Subject Domain Names to the
IP addresses where the associated websites are hosted; and
- Upon the Plaintiffs’
request, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”)
shall take all actions necessary to ensure that the top level domain
Registries responsible for the Subject Domain Names transfer and/or
disable the Subject Domain Names
- Statutory damages:
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- Award Chanel $99,000.00,
Louis Vuitton $648,000.00, and Tiffany $459,000.00 pursuant to 15 U.S.C.
§ 1117(c);
- Award Chanel $10,000.00,
Louis Vuitton $50,000.00, and Tiffany $470,000.00 in statutory damages
against, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1117(d).
- Costs of Suit: award
Plaintiffs $700.00 pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a).
- Interest from the
date this action was filed shall accrue at the legal rate. It is further
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that this case is CLOSED and all pending motions are DENIED as MOOT.
DONE AND ORDERED at
Miami, Florida, this 28th day of September, 2010.