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FONOVISA, INC. v. CHERRY AUCTION, INC.

No. 94-15717.

76 F.3d 259 (1996)

FONOVISA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHERRY AUCTION, INC.; Richard Pilegard, W.D. Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig E. Lindberg, J. Craig Williams, Callahan, Blaine & Williams, Irvine, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stephen R. Cornwell and Bruce William Kelley, McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard, Wayte & Carruth, Fresno, California, for Defendants-Appellees.

Anthony M. Keats, Larry W. McFarland, Rebecca I. Lobl, Baker & Hostetler, Los Angeles, California, for the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition, Inc. as amicus curiae in support of plaintiff-appellant.

Russell J. Frackman, argued, and Robert C. Welsh, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles, California; Jose Zorrilla Jr., Zorrilla Law Corporation, Irvine, California; David A. Gauntlett and Leo E. Lundberg, Jr., Gauntlett & Associates, Irvine, California; Craig E. Lindberg, formerly of Callahan & Gauntlett, Irvine, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant Fonovisa, Inc.

Robert C. Welsh and Russell J. Frackman, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles, California, for the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc., as amicus curiae in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before: SCHROEDER and ALARCON, Circuit Judges, and PANNER, District Court Judge.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This is a copyright and trademark enforcement action against the operators of a swap meet, sometimes called a flea market, where third-party vendors routinely sell counterfeit recordings that infringe on the plaintiff's copyrights and trademarks. The district court dismissed on the pleadings, holding that the plaintiffs, as a matter of law, could not maintain any cause of action against the swap meet for sales by vendors who leased

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