20TH CENTURY FOX FILM v. ENTER DISTRIBUTING

Nos. 03-57052, 04-55410, 03-57234.

429 F.3d 869 (2005)

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation; SFM Entertainment LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; New Line Home Video Inc., a New York Corporation, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, v. ENTERTAINMENT DISTRIBUTING, an Oregon Corporation; Marathon Music & Video, an Oregon Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, Dastar Corporation, an Oregon Corporation, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, Random House, Inc., sued as Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., Counter-Defendant-Appellee. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; SFM Entertainment LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; New Line Home Video Inc., a New York Corporation, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, v. Entertainment Distributing, an Oregon Corporation; Marathon Music & Video, an Oregon Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, Dastar Corporation, an Oregon Corporation, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, Random House, Inc., sued as Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., Counter-Defendant-Appellee. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; SFM Entertainment LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; New Line Home Video Inc., a New York Corporation, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, v. Entertainment Distributing, an Oregon Corporation; Marathon Music & Video, an Oregon Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, Dastar Corporation, an Oregon Corporation, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, Random House, Inc., sued as Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., Counter-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 18, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Gerber, Oxnard, CA, for the defendant-counter-claimant-appellant.

Jonathan D. Hacker, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, Stephen G. Contopulos, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellees.

Before FARRIS, NELSON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.


TALLMAN, Circuit Judge.

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