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Case of the Day: Tracfone v. CNT Wireless
The case of the day is TracFone Wireless, Inc. v. CNT Wireless, LLC (S.D. Fla. 2019). TracFone accused the defendants of an “unlawful international mobile telephone trafficking scheme.” It sought leave to serve subpoenas on non-parties in Canada. The case is similar to TracFone Wireless, Inc. v. Technopark Co. (S.D. Fla. 2012), which I described……
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Case of the Day: Sucesores de Done Carlo Nuñez v. Société Générale
The case of the day is Sucesores de Done Carlo Nuñez y Doña Pura Galvez, Inc. v. Société Générale S.A. (S.D. Fla. 2019). The case was a Helms-Burton Act case. Banco Nuñez sought leave to serve process on the Bank of Nova Scotia and the National Bank of Canada, both Canadian firms, and Banco Bilbao……
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Case of the Day: Brown v. Tamas
The case of the day is Brown v. Tamas (Cal. Ct. App. 2019). Here is how the decision begins: The Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters sets the rules for service of judicial documents in foreign countries. When the Probate Code requires delivery of notice, as……
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Case of the Day: Finjan v. Zscaler
The case of the day is Finjan, Inc. v. Zscaler, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2019). It’s from early in 2019, but I missed it when it was issued. The case was a patent dispute. Finjan, a computer security company, sought the production of emails from Tim Warner, a British citizen living in the UK. The emails……
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Case of the Day: Vischer AG v. Apollo Enterprise Solutions
The case of the day is Vischer AG v. Apollo Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 2019). Vischler, a Swiss firm, had obtained a judgment for $160,000 for breach of contract against Apollo in the Commercial Court in Zurich. Vischer sought recognition in California and asserted that the Swiss judgment entitled it to damages in……