SPORTS AUTHORITY, INC. v. PRIME HOSPITALITY CORP.

No. 145, Docket 95-7161.

89 F.3d 955 (1996)

THE SPORTS AUTHORITY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PRIME HOSPITALITY CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph T. Rader, Bloomfield Hills, MI (Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Jonathan I. Blackman, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lawrence O. Kamin, New York City (Gregory L. Harris, Esther Berkowitz-Caballero, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, New York City, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before MESKILL, MAHONEY, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff The Sports Authority, Inc. ("TSA") brought this action for violations of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., and New York's anti-dilution statute, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 368-d, against defendant Prime Hospitality Corp. ("Prime") in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. TSA alleged that Prime's use of the words "sports authority" in the name of its sports-oriented restaurants and...

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